Word: oles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letting it pass he had abandoned invasion, turning his attention southward (see p. 27, p. 29}, Britain might not be so likely to win as if he made the attempt now. The British were confident last week as they feared they might not be next spring. Ole Bill, Captain Bruce Bairnsfather's famous cartoon philosopher-private, recently said: "It'd be just like that Hitler to play us a dirty trick, like not trying to invade...
...Ole Hagen, wife of the U. S. Naval attache in Stockholm, landed in Manhattan carefully carrying a pouch which she had been told contained the ashes of Captain Robert M. Losey (U. S. attache killed in Dombas, Norway during a Nazi air raid). Opened, the pouch was found to contain affidavits of Losey's death, nothing else...
...French Alpine troops at Namsos embarked first, under General Sylvestre Gérard Audet, who was wounded in the head by bomb splinters. Then went the British, throwing their arms and stores away, their retreat "covered" by Norwegians, whose Colonel Ole Getz complained bitterly, and surrendered to the Germans, when he found that the Allies had left him to fight with an open flank and rear. (The British said Colonel Getz's superior, General Otto Ruge, understood their plan, went with them.) Furiously pursuing German airmen raked and bombarded the launches loading on Namsos' concatenated waterfront. They dumped...
...mound for Boston was diamond-wise Robert Moses ("Ole Mose") Grove, No. 1 Red Sox pitcher despite his 40 years. With masterful control and rare cunning, resorted to when the blaze died out of his famed fireball five years ago, Ole Mose confounded Washington batters. Up they came and down they went. By the eighth inning, no Senator had even got to first base on a walk. Then, after retiring 21 batters in a row-with a no-hit, no-run game almost in the palm of his glove-Grove faltered. One hit was chalked up against him, then another...
...believe that this is an error. You probably refer to Carter's Chickery, Eldorado, ILL., which is one of the Grand Ole Opry sponsors...