Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jumped with three cameras and a canteen of Scotch and I pointed out to myself that the canteen was very important. The other guys jumped out yelling 'Umbriago!' which is what you yell now, but I was yelling 'one thousand' because if your parachute does not open you are to yell 'one thousand, two thousand, three thousand' before you pull the string. The moment between your jump and land is 24 hours in any man's life. I had time to figure out six or seven things before I hit-one thing...
...were too emotional for him, and he drew nothing but horizontal and vertical lines, convinced that the right angle was the purest "expression of the two opposing forces [which] constitute life." To the uninitiated, the result might look something like a linoleum pattern, but Mondrian spent days shifting colored Scotch tape around a canvas, hoping to achieve a perfect harmony of balanced rectangles...
Miss Mac had been born into the late Cleland Boyd McAfee's staunchly Presbyterian Scotch-Irish household in Parkville, Mo. in 1900-last of the Rev. Dr. McAfee's three daughters. She had grown up in an atmosphere of visiting missionaries, company for Sunday dinner, the Bible, St. Nicholas and the Youth's Companion. She remembers herself and two sisters as "perfect little snobs...
...program. Last week he reported to Congress that Lend-Lease aid had reached the fabulous total of $35,382,000,000.* At the same time, he tartly observed that the effect of Lend-Lease on civilian goods shortages at home "has been greatly overstated in numerous false rumors." To scotch the rumors, he stated a few facts...
...Those misgivings are very exaggerated." But Sir Andrew Duncan, Minister of Supply, shared Lady Astor's misgivings. He warned Britons to "behave in a dignified way and not become inebriated." Nevertheless, pubs and bars continued to lay in stocks, while brewers advised them to save 20% of their Scotch whiskey quota for victory celebration...