Word: petroles
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...country Britons write, mentioning lovely gardens, usually ending up offering: "Make this your home while you are here." Officers have picked up, and like, the afternoon-tea habit. They are fluently using general slang such as "Browned off," "Good show," "I take a very poor view of that," say petrol for gas, use R.A.F. expressions like "gen" for general information, make constant use of "actually." Many visit R.A.F. stations. They greatly admire the fighter, coastal and bomber commands...
...occasion of Morrison's wrath was an innocuous-looking cartoon whose bite was in its caption, "The price of petrol has been increased by one penny" (implying that British seamen were risking their lives to fatten the big corporations). As supporting evidence for his charge, Morrison quoted a paragraph from a Mirror editorial: "The accepted tip for Army leadership would, in plain words, be this: All who aspire to mislead the other in war should be brass-buttoned boneheads, socially prejudiced, arrogant and fussy. A tendency to heart disease, apoplexy, diabetes and high blood pressure is desirable...
...Italian planes successfully raided Gibraltar and all machines returned to Italy safely after sinking three British destroyers and leaving half of the Rock in flames following a petrol dump explosion...
Since La Línea had no destroyers to sink or petrol dumps to burn, for once the world had a gauge of the accuracy of Italian Air Force communiqu...
...came in the belief that he could remain in Scotland two days, discuss his peace proposals with a certain group, and be given a supply of petrol and maps to enable him to return to Germany and tell them the results of his conversations. I understand that he is quite annoyed at being kept prisoner...