Word: packs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sure enough, before he could pack his blue pencils and shears-or newsmen could toast his departure-Press Release No. 1621 came clanking off the Mimeographs. It came from on high (the combined chiefs of staff) and was as big a surprise to most censors as to correspondents. Said 1621: "In order to clarify the position of this headquarters . . . censorship in this theater is hereby discontinued except for major troop movements . . . and such other matters of high military importance as may require reference to the Supreme Commander...
...fits naturally into human society and instinctively subordinates himself to his master because of his primitive urge to join a pack and to be submissive to a leader. He transfers to the human family his loyalty to the dog pack...
...some other remarks he made about the regimentation of labor in Soviet Russia he was obliged to make a public apology. In 1939, his tour of duty as CNO completed, Mr. Roosevelt sent him to Puerto Rico to govern that hot and troubled island. The President did not pack him off to get him out of the way. Puerto Rico needed a steadying rein. It got it. The retired Admiral governed with a fair, gloved hand. A newspaper columnist nicknamed him El Lija, a Spanish play on his name which translates, "The Sandpaper." But the people cheered him when...
...until the end was the submarine completely beaten. Three weeks before the German surrender U.S. forces found a major wolf pack, sank five U-boats and learned the Nazis were again out to blanket the U.S. East Coast from Maine to Florida...
...surrendered off Cape May. N.J., claiming to have sunk 16 ships in its last eight weeks at sea. Other captives were awaited along the U.S. seaboard. Meanwhile convoying will be continued in the Atlantic until the last of the wolf pack has been accounted...