Word: reveal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night Athens was awesome. The darkness which engulfed the city was periodically pierced by flares parachuted by the R.A.F. to reveal ELAS troop movements. The floating flares also revealed the Parthenon in a new, glowing beauty. The Acropolis was again a fortress. Under cover of night British paratroopers descended on the historic (and once more strategic) eminence, found it unoccupied. All round them was ELAS-land, but the skytroopers were confident they could hold the precipitous heights against any assault. The only troops which had ever taken the Acropolis by storm were the Persians...
Zaslavsky on White: An obscure American newspaperman of "doubtful reputation." His book's conclusions: "The standard stew from the Fascist kitchen, with all its aroma of calumnies, unpardonable ignorance and undisguised malice . . . [They] reveal the features of the worst section of the American Press...
Clerks in the leading emporiums are not prone to reveal their personal defense mechanisms, but they are glad to chuckle at the desperate measures formerly respectable citizens have adopted in the emergency. Employees at Michaels' Drug Store have lost all respect for an aged couple who, after buying at the store together for years, sud- denly feigned non-acquaintance one morn at the peak of the crisis in order to get two packs under the stringent one-to-a-customer basis...
Showing the operation of the United States Navy Photographic Interpretation Unit, the exhibition of 16 posters describes the methods used in photographic reconnaissance, and the part it plays in crushing the enemy. The equipment and training necessary to "Reveal the Enemy's Secrets" are illustrated in the display which will run until December...
...World War I, and assistant professor of pathology at Cornell. The U.S. Army & Navy, hopeful that the discovery may lead to a vaccine which will lick World War II's No. 1 disease, have put the lid on the experiments, they will not allow the institute to reveal the kinds of animals immunized, or the kinds of malaria parasites-there are four-against which the animals were protected...