Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, before taking off for a trip to Vienna, the joint chiefs conferred with representatives of The Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal. Said Admiral Denfeld: "We had a fine exchange . . ."
¶Nudists of the American Sunbathing Association worked out a neat solution to the problem of a Peeping Tom who was eyeing their convention in Colorado's Deer Creek Canyon through a three-foot telescope. They trapped him, escorted him down out of the brush, made him take off...
¶A Brooklyn holdup man named Irving Katzenbogen (alias Ike Katz) took a tip from the late John Dillinger, got a plastic surgeon to remodel his face to keep the cops off his trail. He came boldly back to his old haunts-and ended up in jail. He had neglected...
According to United Nations World (not officially connected with U.N.), the question was asked a year ago of Andrei Gromyko by a "top-ranking" U.S. businessman. Gromyko's reply pictured Stalin as deeply hurt because the U.S. had cut off Lend-Lease after war's end. But Stalin...
The re-enactment gave the police some clues. Explained one policeman: "Just little things. Like that expression soyez braves. Only a man from the south of France would have said it. One never knows just which little item will lead to the criminals." But at week's end, the...