Word: objection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...object of Hill's wrath was a North Carolinian, 59 years of age, a graduate of West Point in the class of 1827, and former Lieutenant Colonel of the 4th United States Infantry. A man of fine appearance and of pronounced patriotism, Gabriel Rains was at heart a scientist, and was more interested in explosives than in field command. In 1840, while campaigning against the Seminole Indians, he first had experimented with booby-traps. On the retreat from Yorktown he had planted several of these in the way of the Federals and thereby had delayed somewhat the pursuit...
...reached between the leaders of the two countries and their respective staffs upon war plans and enterprises to be undertaken during 1943 against Germany, Italy and Japan with a view to drawing the utmost advantage from the markedly favorable turn of events at the close of 1942. . . . [A] prime object has been to draw as much weight as possible off the Russian armies by engaging the enemy as heavily as possible at the best selected points...
...amused condescension, and patronizingly applauded the recent Japanese effort to acquire western knowledge. But bitter experience, culminating in the incursions of foreign powers at the end of the century, turned the attention of the Chinese people outward. Europe and America became a part of their world and the object of much earnest study...
...desert. "Men adrift in northern latitudes sometimes imagine they can see things which are not there, such as smoke, sails, ships or land. It does not mean that you are out of your mind or even lightheaded. Make very sure that all of you see the same object before wasting your strength in pulling toward...
...many a U.S. merchant seaman facing danger on the high seas, two organizations stand head & shoulders above all others. One of them is an obvious object of professional admiration: the U.S. Navy. But the other would stump most guessers. It is the unpaid, volunteer Civil Air Patrol. Men in ships, hardened by endless repetition to the inherent hazards of their own calling, still gape with honest admiration when they hear the sewing-machine hum of a low-powered CAP engine far from land and see a tiny landplane soaring overhead, patiently on the watch for the feather...