Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people of the United States to make every sacrifice that will contribute to the victory. The soldiers must feel that the home folk-East, West, on the plains and in the mountains-are completely united in their determination to see this thing through to an overwhelming victory in the shortest possible time...
...legislative session which followed was the shortest in California since 1907, and the most businesslike. In 71 days, Governor Warren pushed through...
...pulled out of a hat of kindness. In 1893 Beatrix Potter (her maiden name) concocted him in some letters to a sick child. The invalid was enchanted. In 1901 Peter made his book debut accompanied by his brother and sisters Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail. In one of the simplest, shortest and fastest moving tales ever written (53 more-or-less declarative sentences, 27 colored pictures) the pastel-tinted miscreant Peter spent a lawless day, got into proper trouble, limped home a furry wreck but safe at last. And to sleep with him went every child who ever stole...
Scare Stuff? Snorted Dr. Alfred Stettbacher, a Swiss explosives expert: No rocket could be fired 120 miles today (shortest distance to London from the Continent: 90 miles); the rockets the Germans are using from planes against Allied bombers are actually 22-lb. projectiles with a range of about a mile and a quarter. "Secret weapons and rocket shells," he added, "are nothing but a nerve war to scare credulous laymen...
...east, three miles above captured Ortona (TIME, Jan. 10), the Eighth Army paused. A gale, whipping down from the Apennines, ripped away roof tiles, chilled men and mules, stalled movement. "Point 59," another pillboxed ridge, barred the nine miles yet to go to Pescara, Adriatic terminal of the shortest (125 mi.) trans-peninsular railroad and highway to Rome...