Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though to underscore the threat, carriers, detached from Spruance's Fifth Fleet, steamed up to the Bonins. Their planes circled over the Port Lloyd anchorage used by Commodore Matthew C. Perry in 1853, then dived to pock the runways of Peel Island (Chichi Jima) which Perry had vainly urged the U.S. to take for a coaling station...
This brought stunned representatives of almost every foreign government in Washington streaming in to look at the big "orange-peel" map of U.S. plans. The British stared when they saw blue lines running through British territories. The Dutch came to worry about their KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) interests. The enigmatic Russians came and went, enigmatically...
...infield features "Slats" Slattery and Bill Lutz, while outfield veterans include Sherm Clark and George Boston. The size of the squad will be reduced later when the intramural teams begin to peel off the informal Varsity...
...that I'm a steady man the conditions will be better. Well, I found myself in hock, and when I started being a regular man, I was $600 in debt. Up until today I'm still in debt that same $600. It seems I can never peel off any amount of that debt. It seems when I get to a certain extent that something happens which makes it accumulate old bills...
...said, 'What shall we do to pay up our old bills? If we get married now we'll have the furniture to pay for, and I haven't got a dime.' I said: 'Wait a while and see if I can peel off these debts.' She said: 'I'll work a while and maybe on both salaries we'll catch up.' So it happened that way, and then she was in a family way and from then on my troubles began all over again. So after my work I came...