Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ulithi is a series of flat, palm-dotted islands (strung onto a necklace-shaped atoll). It is 110 miles east of Jap-held Yap, 400 miles southwest of Guam-and 4,000 miles nearer the war than Pearl Harbor. Ulithi was captured without opposition last September by the 321st Regiment of the 81st Infantry Division.* The Japs had just left. Ulithi's great, 112-sq.-mi. anchorage could hold nearly 1,000 ships of the U.S. Fleet-something neither Guam nor Pearl Harbor...
...marriage palled. Antenor and Cristina parted, then became reconciled. Last year Antenor agreed to give Cristina $500,000. He also promised her another $500,000 if he should abandon her "without cause." Last week, in a Manhattan court, Cristina charged that Antenor had been running off to places like Palm Beach and Colorado Springs with one Francesca Simms, a sultry American model. This, said Cristina, constituted abandonment. The court agreed, ordered Antenor, now in London...
Perhaps too interested in color and not enough in facts, a New York Daily News copyreader last week embroidered an A.P. story about Harry Robert Bell of West Palm Beach, Fla., just home from the wars. If he had stopped to think, he would probably not have dressed up Bell as "the nation's first draftee"-since there were 6,175 duplicates of "First Draftee" Bell, all holders of local draft boards...
Then Phil opened his barracks bag and pulled out a watch he had brought home for his father, a palm-sized pistol he had taken from the Mayor of Mannheim, a .38 automatic* he had taken from a German, a flashlight he had picked up. in Hitler's house at Berchtesgaden and a pile of dirty clothes, which he dumped in a corner...
...historian (The People's Choice) and New Dealing editor (Louisville Courier-Journal), for the past two years assistant to U.S. Ambassador John Winant in London; by his second wife, Eleanor Carroll Chilton Agar, 46, Smith-and Oxford-educated socialite-litterateur; after twelve years of marriage (no children); in Palm Beach...