Word: pluckings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blandness over skeletons in the imperial closet, a nice old man's bright readiness with encyclopedic information. Told in the manner of a genuinely charming speaker at a banquet of the English-Speaking Union, the book cheerfully describes the Empire as the reward of centuries of unblemished pluck and fair play, and recommends, as a basis for durable peace, a Union of the Empire, France...
...educational needs of high-school pupils a generation ago." Recent investigations of typical American schools in New York and Maryland show conclusively that in the world of today the ability of a high school graduate is no longer an important factor in obtaining a job, that "economic circumstances, not pluck or ability, are the chief determiners of eventual success," he said...
Minute Men. What was now left of Norway's bacon, was now saved by King Haakon's pluck, and by an old American fighting custom. King Haakon refused to countenance "Premier" Quisling, exhorted his people to fight. This a lot of them were already doing. Loyal Norse airmen, hearing of the Germans' approach, managed to spirit half of Norway's 100 military planes away to secret fields (frozen lakes). Loyal Norse soldiers, as they fell away from the shores of Oslo Fjord, man aged to blow up Selbergross Dam, main source of the capital...
...combatants, so it exploits war for what it's worth. Americans have deserted the reality of intuition, absolute values, rationalism, and the reality of society itself for an inflation and a perversion of their original empirical findings. They tolerate the thorn in the flesh in order to pluck the ephemeral rose of immediate material gain...
...ship down. In the dusty dark, unbroken as he neared the ground, he had only his lighted instruments to tell him whether he was on an even keel, only his altimeter to tell him when he was close to the unpredictable earth. Harold Neely's luck equaled his pluck. The bomber missed all the gullies, fences, poles, wires, barns, houses, livestock and civilians in that part of Kansas, glided into an open field. Damage : two bent propellers, a crumpled nose. Unhurt, Pilot Neely discovered that Lieut. John O. Neal and Private Henry Zielinski had parachuted safely down, three miles...