Word: sheds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...damp, disused, musty wharf shed the 50 men stood and sat, impatient, griped, chilled: newsmen, cameramen, radiomen, technicians, bottleholders. They had been waiting a long time-two weeks at Swampscott, Mass., two days at Rockland, Me. They were angry as a bunch of bears with sore haunches. They were the reception committee for Franklin Roosevelt, returning from the greatest fishing trip that any President of the U.S. had ever undertaken...
Just as bewildered was the man at the pump. A message from Oil Coordinator Harold Ickes shed no light. Declaring that equitable "apportioning" should be done by filling-station operators so as to exact "as few hardships" as possible, he declared: "You can no more fail in [this task] than can a soldier, a sailor or a worker in a vital defense industry...
Daymond shot down his second Nazi plane. But in drawing blood, the Eagles shed it. They lost Pilot Officer William Isaac Hall of Springfield, Vt. But they hoped he was all right; the last they saw of his damaged machine, it was gliding toward open country, wheels down...
...begins to shed his thin civilian skin, the Jacksonville cadet finds his existence pretty comfortable. There are the six tennis courts, a swimming pool, a golf driving range, the Cadet club where tax-free Tom Collinses sell for 20?. Outside his hard-driven hours he has no responsibilities. With $75 a month to fritter away on weekends or payments on a car, he seems to have ample funds for his brief periods "ashore"-Saturday nights and Sundays...
...would seem scarcely believable that the French Government . . . should adopt the policy of collaboration with other powers for the purpose of aggression. . . . We are therefore undertaking as speedily as possible to assemble every material fact and circumstance calculated to shed light on this alleged course of the French Government...