Word: rivet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would make of France Resistant another quasi-Ally, like Italy, complete with AMG and ex-Fascist mayors converted from Fascism to Democracy since June 6. When the French punish such Vichyites as they can catch, the charge is made that the "Gaullists" are purging the "opposition" and intend to rivet a Gaullist dictatorship on France. If other Allied governments punished their traitors so, they would be praised for bringing "war criminals" to book...
Jinx Falkenburg, swore her Hollywood pressagent, was something more than a pin-up girl: students at an Army flight school (unnamed) had affixed her picture to planes in a really permanent way-she was the first rivet-up girl ever...
...tobacco warehouse). When the plant is fully equipped this summer, Reynolds' capacity for parts will be six times its current rate-and today's figure is 40 times what it was a year ago. Current production includes some 70,000 different parts for 16 different planemakers from rivet washers to wing sections...
...first warm breezes, traveling north, carried the familiar small sounds of spring: the honk of wild geese, the liquid whistle of red-winged blackbirds. But they were drowned in greater sounds: factory whistles, rivet hammers, the sound of tractors, axes, exhausts. Greenup time was only a pastel shade among the primary colors of the revolutionized American landscape. There was no winter's slumber to awaken from, this year...
...Concentrate heat in small areas even deep within the insides of larger objects-to bake, dry, glue, stitch, anneal, weld, rivet...