Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Africa. "I'll tell you that whenever you attack you have got dreams, then you have got hopes, then you have got expectations and then you have got just what you have got to get.. . . One of our great hopes was that the French fleet would sail out of Toulon and say, 'Hello, come on. Let's have a good time.' " (The French fleet had done nothing of the kind...
...nodded curtly in answer to the judge's questions. President Maroni: "Will you answer with something more than gestures?" Koch's voice suddenly rang out loud and firm, almost triumphant: "I was born at Benevento in south Italy 27 years ago. I was in Leghorn waiting to sail to Sardinia with the Second Grenadier Regiment when Badoglio surrendered...
...been held in the Admiral's schoolhouse compound. Soldiers from Norway and Denmark strode about Flensburg, boasting: "We were never beaten." A British sergeant knocked one of them down, and said: "Well, you've been beaten now." Disarmed marines were marched through the streets, still singing We Sail against England...
...Central China, dry up disease-breeding lakes on the plains below the gorge, irrigate about 60 million acres, employ thousands, and, among other things, provide power for a string of greatly needed fertilizer factories. A lock system on the man-made lake will permit 10,000-ton steamers to sail from Shanghai to Chungking itself...
Then, shaking toward the boats drops of holy water from a silver aspergillum, the Archbishop read the blessing: "Deign. 0 Lord, to hear our supplications and bless these ships . . . and all who sail therein. . . . Extend to them Thy right hand as Thou didst to Peter walking upon the sea, and send Thy holy angel from Heaven to protect and guard them from every danger...