Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protect troops going into areas where the plague bacillus exists, the Army & Navy often give injections of an anti-plague vaccine. As this vaccine is not a perfect protection and wears off in six months, the services rely chiefly on powders and sprays to keep off fleas, and their war on rats which is continuous, plague or no plague. In Suez, the rats have resisted stubbornly...
...same page it is indicated that "only a political miracle" will enable U.S. soldiers and sailors to vote in November. What a perfect setup for . . . phony professional drys...
...evacuation, "the guardian deities of Attu" also calmed the seas and temporarily hoisted the fog to provide a convenient 15 feet of perfect visibility...
From the Berliner Boersen-Zeitung: "Secretary-interpreter, perfect Russian, English, expert stenographer-typist, at present employed in Vilna, looking for other employment, preferably inside Germany...
...Sicily, Messerschmitts circled a nearby hill, but Technical Sergeant Richard Redding, stringing wire atop a telephone pole and a perfect target, worked on. Someone yelled up from below: "What are you doing up that pole...