Word: silks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pushed on to Toulon with General Patch's Seventh Army . . . Carl My dans came from Italy to join General de Lattre's fighters in the march on Marseilles (to the best of our knowledge, My dans was the only correspondent with the French forces) . . . and Photographer George Silk flew in from Italy in a British glider which tore itself almost to bits Silk on an antiglider post, bounced right across a road, crashed head-on into a ditch at 50 miles an hour (Silk was badly banged up, counts himself lucky to have come out of the wreck...
Married. Army Air Forces Lieut. Thomas Dudley Harmon, 24, twice All-America Michigan halfback, twice reported lost on duty; and Hollywood starlet Elyse Knox, 26, dressed in a gown made from his bullet-riddled silk parachute; in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...American Legion ball park for the fourth annual running of the event. The card consisted of five heats and a sweepstakes. Stubborn Delta plow mules, bedecked for superstition's sake with turkey feathers, squirrel tails and paper festoons, were mounted by Negro plowboys in overalls and gaudy silk shirts. Proceeds were earmarked for Mississippi's underprivileged preschool children...
They wore rakish straw and panama hats gleaned on the march. One Maori wheeled his Bren gun in a streamlined perambulator. Another wore a silk hat and carried a walking stick, his Bren gun strapped across his back. One company marched into a village, captured outlying houses in the midst of their own barrage. Complained a prisoner: "We didn't think you would come until the barrage lifted...
Monsanto Chemical Co. last week turned up with some new chemical processes which produce: ¶ Silk and nylon stockings that...