Word: rowse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ The floodlights, beating upon the councilmen and, ranked behind, the rows of professional diplomats, some of them lost in horror at this new, clean, open thing;
The press arrives first at these affairs. It seats itself in rows of wooden chairs, and smokes for a few minutes while the incongruous little iron stove fights a losing battle against the chill from outside. Presently General Wedemeyer comes in and sits at a desk, like a schoolmaster. Behind...
He had been the victim of phenomenally bad luck, both in & out of court. Wearer of three rows of ribbons, including a Silver Star for gallantry in the Solomons, a topnotch officer (according to Admiral Raymond A. Spruance), handsome, 47-year-old McVay had had his ship-and perhaps his...
But in the nine war-ravaged countries of Eastern Europe and the Far East, where UNRRA's rows of ciphers turned into living people, the view was different. Stalled until V-J day by lack of men, ships and supplies, UNRRA was working at last. It had shipped more...
The fukuryus fitted into a formidable system of invasion beach defenses: farthest out from the beaches a row of anchored mines, to be released by a trip wire; next, three staggered rows of fukuryus, one man every 65 feet, armed with mines and charges; nearest the beach, in three feet...