Word: parcell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Footnote. In Pocatello, Idaho, postal authorities mulled over the weight ceiling which forbade mailing his new size 15 brogans to Marine Pfc. Lawrence I. Hanson, somewhere in the Pacific (TIME, April 24). Wrote an impatient woman: "Did you ever think of sending each shoe in a separate parcel...
...Germany from Moscow last week went a Christmas parcel wrapped in propaganda TNT. It was a big enough parcel to touch the hearts of 250,000 families bereaved by the debacle at Stalingrad. The card enclosed was signed by Lieut. General Walther von Seydlitz, a veteran of Stalingrad and now vice chairman of the Free German Committee...
...becoming an acceptable if not yet welcomed dose of reason and fact. Bomber men began to see that southern Europe offered better flying weather, bases increasingly near to central and southern Germany. They also began to see that "tactical" front-line bombing and "strategic" rear-line bombing were part & parcel of the same...
Vanhattan: Why shouldn't we. After all, we are at home here. . . . We find here everything we are accustomed to: our industrial products; our books; our plays; our sports; our Christian Science churches; our osteopaths; our movies and talkies. Put it in a small parcel and say our goods and our ideas. A political union with us will be just the official recognition of an already accomplished fact. A union of hearts, you might call...
Germany should not be divided or dismembered by the victors. That would be contrary to the whole trend of economic life in all industrial countries which has been in the direction of a single strong Central government with more and more central planning and unified control. To attempt to parcel out Germany into many and relatively weak states as in the Bismarckian or pre-Bismarckian days would be a futile attempt to turn back the clock of time. It would cause undying resentment. It probably could never be permanently enforced except by a permanent army of occupations, which no sane...