Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little old King Vittorio Emanuele III was pressed into service. This pint-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) King, who really prefers peace- and for whom the Italian people preserve filial affection, was strutted off in all his regimentals to some secret "zone of operations" where he proclaimed: "Soldiers of the land...
...most effectively touched off by slow moving neutrons of only one-thirtieth of one electron-volt energy, so that the energy profit was 6,000,000,000 to 1. Prospect of using atomic power-the old dream of sending a ship around the world on the energy in a pint of atoms-seemed much closer than before. Question: how close...
...warships steaming away from shore. How many boatloads sank in the inferno the Nazis poured on them may not be known until the post-war opening of archives. At Gallipoli the British suffered 50,000 casualties out of 120,000 troops landed. The N. W. E. F. affair, a pint-sized Gallipoli, will probably lag far behind that proportion of losses. The rating of those who ordered it, and then countermanded it, will be even lower. The Germans saluted its departure with a furious effort to sink a battleship from the air, a loud but hollow claim of having done...
...According to these the German people are being misled by a fanatic (as Woodrow Wilson said the Kaiser misled them). Let them turn Hitler out and a generous peace along the lines of European economic federation could be made. Duff Cooper's one concession to this attitude: the pint-sized German States should be "impotent but prosperous...
...radio sets or bicycles-all slated in pre-budget forecasts to take a rap. Instead, Sir John announced new taxes which put ordinary British cig-arets up in price from 20? per pack to 25?; matches from 11½? to 2? per box; beer from 9? to 10? per pint; whiskey from $2.50 to $2.80 a bottle. In Britain telephone and telegraph are State monopolies and the Chancellor raised their inland rates 15%, left overseas business rates unchanged to favor British trade. Finally Sir John almost doubled the ordinary British postal rates. Armchair London economists quickly figured that all these...