Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debts, Uncle Sam became Uncle Shylock, the country heard that the holy crusade had been waged to make good J. P. Morgan's loans, that Our Buddies were the pawns of the munitions-makers, that the Road to War was paved with baloney; the blood had been shed not by heroes, but by suckers...
...shed crocodile tears over 'poor Belgium' or 'poor Holland,' " wrote anonymous Commentator "Blackshirt" in Bologna's Resto del Carlino the day after Germany's new invasion began last week (see p. 22). "It is not for Fascist Italy to lament the fate that has overtaken two sanctionist countries, worm-eaten by democracy and anti-Fascism...
...Soldiers of the glorious Finnish Army: "Peace has been concluded between our country and the Soviet Union, an exact ing peace which has ceded to Russia nearly every battlefield on which you have shed your blood on behalf of every thing we hold dear and sacred...
...Hunt, biggest fox hunt ever held in the U. S.; outwitting 140 hounds (seven packs); before 10,000 spectators; on the estates of Pierre S. du Pont and W. Plunket Stewart in Chester County, Pa. After a chase of six miles, the fox jumped to the roof of a shed, climbed through a window, was rescued just as the hounds approached the door. Carried off in a sack, the fox was released after the hounds were called...
...Minister Chamberlain replied that his eloquent predecessor, whom he lumped among "venerable prophets of agriculture," was unduly alarmed. The Government's program besides bringing 2,000,000 acres back into cultivation, includes urging people to grow their own vegetables, encouraging subsistence farming. A laying hen in every tool shed is an objective...