Word: quarter-hour
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...Blue followed its flash with five minutes of detail. Mutual had a commentator on the air in the first quarter-hour. It was about time for the regular overseas news casts. Within slightly more than two hours, overseas correspondents of NBC, CBS and Blue had been broadcasting the first local reactions - from Paris, Rome, London, Luxembourg. Before the night was over, the reports were coming in from Germany, Guam, Okinawa...
...This Effort to Rescue." Churchill started over again. Each sentence in a quarter-hour speech was painstakingly translated. The Prime Minister was grim, his jaw set. He thumped the table. "I and Mr. Eden have come all this way, although great battles are raging in Belgium and on the German frontier, to make this effort to rescue Greece from a miserable fate. . . . Very violent and unexpected troubles have arisen and we have become involved in them through doing what we believed was our duty. That duty we shall discharge inflexibly and faithfully...
...third shot carried away a privy on the end of the pier, containing, I think, the night watchman. We hit the target about 25 times. We kept it up about a quarter-hour before the sleepy Italians realized somebody was shooting at them. They didn't do very much except fire some star shells seven miles out to sea. As we slid out they got a light on us. A couple of shells fell close. Next day they claimed to have sunk...
...Missus. Before he joined up, many a U.S. housewife knew Sergeant Maypole as "my nephew Roy" of The Missus Goes Ashopping, a quarter-hour comedy-quiz program six days a week on Manhattan's WABC. He produced and wrote the show...
Rommel had been expected to make a stand at Hellfire Pass, on the Libyan border. In a desert dawn, last week, some 30 New Zealanders, whooping and firing, scaled the high escarpment that blocks the route west. An Italian force of several hundred men surrendered after a quarter-hour of token resistance. They were bitter at their German allies. Where was Marshal Rommel? That was what the Italians wanted to know. When they saw him next. . . . They drew their hands across their throats...