Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later. The Japs still had guns, still had fight in them even after 10,000 tons of shells and bombs had ripped their two-and-a-half-year-old defenses. By noon of D-day the marines had tanks ashore, had fought their way inland through charred and tattered palm groves, using grenades, rifles, machine-guns, light field pieces & flamethrowers...
Illinois' tousled Representative Everett M. Dirksen, who is really campaigning for second place, wound up his tour at Rockford, Ill. And Washington newsmen heard that Lieut. Commander Harold E. Stassen, talking to a friend under a palm tree in the South Pacific, had said he would not stop presentation of his name to the convention...
Very friendly, very businesslike, he speaks in the pulpit with machine-gun rapidity, pounds his palm with his clenched fist to stress his points. His preaching and lecturing have taken him as much as 30,000 miles a year, most of which he covered by plane...
...Utahan on Guadalcanal sent news that onetime battlefields on conquered islands were now baseball diamonds; the sound of American voices yelling "Kill the ump!" echoed through the palm trees where Japs had once hidden. ¶A New Jersey Marine wrote to his girl from the Solomons: "I am sending you a white Navy blanket from the ship's store, because it is the loveliest thing I've seen since I've been overseas...
Pacific, with a gourmet's enthusiastic attention to detail, described a new dish called "millionaires' salad," - a culinary triumph consisting solely of palm hearts soaked in vinegar...