Word: nut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Justice. As a power for peace, Pius XII is less a man than the continuation .of a policy. But what the Catholic peace policy is, non-Catholics sometimes find it difficult to discover. And even Catholics find it hard to put the Church's peace program in a nut shell...
Subtly the doctor probed and searched. The bluejacket wondered what was wrong, why he had been called to the "nut factory." His service record in the surface ships was clean. The psychiatrist's questions gave him no clues. But his answers and his scores in the preliminary written tests told the tale. The sailor was healthy, intelligent and eager for sub duty, but he was not the type. Within the hour, he was off the Base, his papers marked "immediate sea duty...
...they did. They do not explain how he found out how to solve cube roots. For every question Joel answers correctly on the program he gets a penny and a marble. He also gets another penny and a marble for good behavior. He saves his pennies to buy maple-nut, chocolate-covered ice cream sticks...
...Derry was commissioned, only a handful of Navy people were on hand. In a country where two weeks without rain is considered a drought, civilian employes of two U.S. construction companies sloshed through ankle-deep mud, grading, putting up Quonset huts, getting machinery under some kind of cover. Every nut, bolt and machine had come by convoy from the U.S. and so-25 days after the commissioning-did about 300 Navy technicians...
...When he was appointed Chief of the Allied Forces in North Africa, with American, British and French land, sea & air forces under him, there was no longer any doubt that 52-year-old "Ike" Eisenhower was to be the Pershing of 1943. His immediate responsibility: to crack Tunisia, a nut which was beginning to look tougher every day. His probable eventual responsibility: to invade Europe...