Word: nights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turkish Military Mission, wined & dined every night by lavish hosts who included the Lord Mayor of London, readily "initialed" a long-term agreement of mutual Turkish-British support, but refused to "sign" and indicated that what Turkey will actually do cannot be decided until President Ismet Inönü knows, among other things, just how much support the Bank of England is willing to give Turkish currency and just how much in the way of armaments the British care to send to Turkey. In circles close to His Majesty's Government the "difficulties" of shipping arms to Turkey...
...five to six cups of coffee daily have had to cut it out altogether. Gasoline is strictly rationed. The wartime one-meat-course meal has been ordered and instead of one voluntary meatless day a week (Friday), there are now two enforced ones (Thursday and Friday). Such luxuries as night clubs have been prohibited altogether...
Describing a night fusillade, the New York Times War Correspondent G. H. Archambault caught the eerie nature of this war of waiting: "A watcher in some trench may fire at what he imagines to be shadowy shapes crawling toward him. His shot proves contagious. Machine guns begin their battle, field guns lay down a barrage, howitzers begin pounding the rear zone to immobilize reinforcements. Fire answers fire, and the entire sector is ablaze...
...That first night in that cold water was ghastly. I prayed hard for the first time in years (but not out loud) and I guess some...
After 38 hours in the water five men clinging to the jury raft had to be dragged aboard the dinghy. On the third night of drifting without food or water, they sighted a ship. The first mate took out his bosun's whistle and "blew and blew and blew for some twenty minutes. It was that tiny whistle that made the Italian rescue ship [Provvidenza] change her course and head for us. They let down a rope ladder, but we all had to be helped to be dragged up. Whiskey and wine were given to the men. Auntie...