Word: quebecs
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...language all sounds like Greek. Mainly, it is a hyperabbreviated shorthand of letters and numerals identifying sender and receiver and passing on data about wind conditions, altitudes and airport geography. Herewith a typical conversation, in English and French, as it might be overheard by an Air Canada pilot over Quebec City...
...Pilot: Quebec ground, this is Foxtrot Juliet Victor Hotel, radio check. One two decimal nine...
...other people's opinions?I thought for myself." He adds that he has not earned a shilling from the huge popularity of his pamphlet (under his arrangement with Printer Robert Bell, Paine's half of the profits was to be donated to buy mittens for the American expedition against Quebec...
...Nothing to be heard from morning to night but 'Doctor! Doctor! Doctor!' " That was Dr. Lewis Beebe's vivid recollection of Brigadier General Benedict Arnold's expeditionary forces retreating from Quebec Province last month. As firsthand accounts of the debacle are gathered, it becomes increasingly clear that the expedition's most dangerous enemy was not gunfire but disease. Says Congressional Delegate John Adams of Massachusetts: "The small pox is ten times more terrible than Britons, Canadians and Indians together. This was the cause of our precipitate retreat from Quebec, this the cause of our disgraces...
Even before the Quebec expedition, the small pox proved to be a menace. Boston had so many cases that the disease helped deter General George Washington from trying to fight his way into the city last spring. Said he: "If we escape the small pox in this camp and the country around about, it will be miraculous." Only after General Howe evacuated the city did Washington send in 500 of his men who had already had the disease...