Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done again a week later-with better results. Daylight bombing with big demolition bombs is still the prescribed dose for heavy industry, big arsenals, dockyards and the like. In future, the Japs (already evacuating all but essential civilians from five of their million-population cities) will have to reckon with both types of attack...
...second place is energetic Company C club, a late starter, but a team to reckon with. Paced by League's two top acorns, Jones (39 points) and Hall (37 points), Company C has taken three of in four games so far. Standish and the II & I team have dropped from the front ranks, whereas Lowell has hit its atride...
...threw a rock and it bounced off'n him like rubber," said Orville. "If somebody gets ate up I reckon you'll believe it." But a few days later the Johnson children were ordered back to school, this time by a skeptical county judge...
...last, final mission remains for the Red Army, namely to complete, together with the armies of our Allies, the task of defeating the German fascist armies, finishing off the fascist beast in his own lair and raising over Berlin the banner of victory. There is ground to reckon on this task being fulfilled by the Red Army in the near future...
Preacher Howard has baptized hundreds of Ozark people. One of his strangest converts was an old granny. The blind old woman summoned him to her cabin, said: "From what I heerd about ye, preacher, I reckon I kin trust ye ter keep a secret. Hit's always been a deep sorrer in my life, I kin tell ye. My own children don't know and nobody else here knows. But, preacher, I feel I ain't much longer fer this world and I jist gotta confess hit ter somebody...