Word: sher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jhelum's steep banks thousands of Srinagar citizens watched the procession, occasionally set off firecrackers. Carefully coached schoolchildren shouted "Jawaharlal Nehru Zindabad!" (Long live Jawaharlal Nehru) and "Sher-i-Kashmirl" (Long live the Lion of Kashmir-Sheikh Abdullah). Merchants took advantage of a good opportunity, strung their rugs from house windows for all to see and buy; some erected huge banners across the river, with slogans like "Welcome from Ali Mohamed-best Persian and Kashmiri carpets...
...Coast of Asia. In January, when the Third Fleet set out again, I left the Ticonderoga for the Essex, Admiral Sher man's group flagship. January 12 was a great day. By 10:30 in the morning the Ticonderoga had got its first "well done" from Admiral Sherman - her planes had sighted a seven-ship convoy off French Indo-China, had sunk all. The fleet sank 41 ships totaling 127,000 tons that day. Said Sherman: "That Ticonderoga is a real ship." Three days later the Ti pilots shot down four Kamikaze planes headed for the Essex...
Pastoral. In The Bronx, William Sher man, who identified himself as a nature lover and salesman of physical-culture books, was found guilty of the charge of shaving in a public-park drinking fountain...
Lieut. Commander Joseph Jerome Sher in the Naval Medical Bulletin sidesteps the whole open *y. closed debate, recommends using the X-ray technique for 30 days in each cyst case before resorting to surgery. Reason: X rays in sufficient quantity will sometimes dry up a cyst, making an operation unnecessary. Advantage of this method: a patient can be on duty all the time except when he comes in for treatment...
This Hurts Me ... In Chicago, for the third time the same robber tried to hold up Storekeeper Theodore Sher, who shot him dead, explained defensively: "I just couldn't stand it to have that man rob me again...