Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know that the Germans came stunningly close to perfecting this fearful weapon and we are told that the Japanese received from them all the information the Nazis had gathered. It was simply a race to see which of us could complete it first, and the Jap trail of bestiality, thousands of miles long, gives us to understand that they would certainly not have hesitated to use this force, had they won the race...
Said a Navy directive last week: "The use of insulting epithets in connection with the Japanese as a race or as individuals does not now become officers of the U.S. Navy...
...mint of money selling scrap iron to Japan, talked her into a weekend at his Spanish villa on Long Island. There were also jaded Bill Priest, who wrote scintillating advertisements for jewelers ("Evenings of wonder, these evenings of betrothal time"), and Croupier Joe Heeney, who had learned to hate race horses ("he had long since passed the point where he called a horse a goat; he had even passed beetle ; he was now referring to the animal as a roach...
...lifted the ceiling on automobile production, and Detroit's race to get there first with the most...
...judges yields to the beast in him when he tastes Mrs. Frake's brandied mincemeat, so she too triumphs. The son and daughter also finally win their hearts' desires. (Good bit: Margy's and the reporter's innocent embrace when "their" horse wins a harness race, their embarrassed withdrawal, their sudden, serious kiss...