Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain by any means. Britain now had at least 2,000 first-line fighting planes and perhaps twice as many bombers. These must be removed from the air, preferably by smashing them on the ground, or by so devastating their fields, fuel bases and shops that they could not rise. To extinguish Poland's large but surprised Air Force took 5,000 planes of the Luftwaffe less than 48 hours. To knock out 300 Dutch and 200 Belgian airplanes took less than 24 hours. The French Air Force (5,500 planes) gradually disintegrated during twelve days of bombing...
Small Shads, called mew yaps, must shag for their elders, rise at 4 a.m. to close the windows in winter, when temperatures of 30° below are no rarity. Divided into Gophers and Badgers for intra mural sports, Shattuck boys excel at most, helped introduce football to the Midwest. When Shads rebel at fish twice a week and ice cream only once, they stiffly march down the hill against orders, march back up again. Some loyal Old Shads: Diplomat Robert Woods Bliss, President George M. Moffett of Corn Products Refining Co., President Henry A. Scandrett of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul...
...German Navy is a newcomer to the world, so is Nazi foreign policy. It is possible that if Britain should lose and Hitler became master of the seas, he would suddenly become a good boy and covet nothing that belongs to his neighbors. The sun may also fail to rise tomorrow morning. There is nothing to prove absolutely that it will or that Hitler won't. One can judge only by experience, and although Hitler's record of past performance is not so long as the sun's it is just as consistent. He has often said...
Colombia. Though Colombia has not forgotten the rape of its northern province by Roosevelt I for the Panama Canal, its emotional antagonism to the U. S. has diminished with the notable rise of U. S. imports from Colombia, which has made the U. S. its best market for coffee, petroleum and bananas. At the head of its Havana delegation is Foreign Minister Luis López de Mesa...
Sirs : Re sudden rise of the Wendell Willkie star TIME may have a lot more to do with this astronomical phenomenon than appears on the surface...