Word: namelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs are pinned on and around a nameless little peninsula that sticks out into Chichagof Harbor - an area from three to seven thousand yards deep and maybe four thousand yards wide. The battle now is a matter of yards...
...smacking prices: German white wines, $240 per dozen bottles; four bottles of Cointreau, $136, and seven of orange Curagao, $160; Chateau Pichon-Longueville claret, $26 a bottle. A solid Briton knows his after-dinner ports as well as he knows Royal Navy battleships. But in the auction last week, nameless brands of port brought $88 a dozen...
...Canadian dam will generate 1,020,000 horsepower, about 25% more than the output of Russia's huge Dnieprostroy dam, which was destroyed before the Germans came. In the U.S., Grand Coulee and Boulder will each ultimately generate around twice as much power, but Canada's mammoth (nameless for military reasons) outstrips the current capacity of both of them. And it was completed in two and a half years, half the time it took to get Boulder into production...
...Personalities are taboo on the Russian radio. Some nameless announcers' voices become known through repetition...
...Died. A nameless mouse of uncertain age; by devouring (by a pink rat); in Hurstmonceaux, England. His distinction: he was green. He was a triumph of the Rev. Dr. Rosslyn Bruce, an amateur geneticist, who bred 50 mouse generations to achieve the greenness...