Word: oed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quoting your review of the movie Fighter Squadron [TIME, Dec. 6]: "When O'Brien parachutes from a crippled plane, his wingman brashly lands in enemy territory to rescue him. This threadbare sort of hokum is fairly hard to take...
THOMAS: ROCK OF CHICKAMAUGA (385 pp.) - Richard O'Connor-Prentice-Hall...
...dray, naow," said a cockney slaughterer, "at 900 pahnd in skin and shoes, 'e'd only bring 40 pahnd when 'e was boned, but on the black market 'e brings near four bob a pahnd." Customers, aware and unaware, were eating heartily. "A nice bit o' minced 'orse, with plenty of carrots and onions," said a Doncaster housewife, "and I defy anyone to turn up 'is nose...
...Southerners got some powerful opposition. It came from shaggy-browed Allan B. Kline, who succeeded the South's Edward A. O'Neal when he retired as president last year (TIME, Dec. 29). Farmer Kline last year raised $40,000 worth of hogs and hybrid corn on his Vinton (Iowa) farm; he also found time to sit on the board of Chicago's Federal Reserve Bank. He believes that if farmers are to stay free enterprisers, they should not rely too heavily on Government support...
...Bragg that Thomas' achievement seemed less impressive to them than it seems now, and the fact that Chickamauga was a Confederate victory obscured the brilliance of his own handling of his troops. Both biographers tell the story of the battle in great detail, and both tell it well. O'Connor is a more ardent partisan of Thomas than Cleaves, and heaps more scorn on the other generals...