Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs had eaten all the island's gooney birds, and most of its rats. Everywhere were relics of Major James ("Send us more Japs") Devereux's stand: U.S. ammunition was stacked in neat piles; rusted machinery was everywhere...
...Employment Service office, the personnel man told one job applicant that he could start at 70? an hour, would then get three automatic raises bringing the rate to 85? , plus premium pay which would send it to $1 an hour. The applicant replied: 'That would be all right if you got in the top bracket right away.' He got up and left...
Braden led off with a bull's-eye: an anecdote of British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare in Franco's Spain. When "nationalists" smashed the embassy's windows, Sir Samuel telephoned to Franco's Foreign Minister, who promised to send police. "Don't send me more police, Mr. Minister," Ambassador Hoare replied. "Send me fewer nationalists...
...party of six friends lunched at the inn, got a bill for 16,000 francs (about $320). The Ambassador wrote his name on the bill, tucked it in an envelope addressed to the regional authority on price control, and called the headwaiter. "Would you be so kind as to send this," he murmured, arose, and departed...
...replied that he would send the No. 2 Communist and veteran negotiator, General Chou Enlai...