Word: skips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theme for a long time has been 'We'll outproduce them.'. . . Then we skip over the killing part and talk about what we'll demand when...
...more planes were needed to tote the load. Thus airline engineers and mechanics will soon start converting some 75 silver-sided transports into grim, olive-grey cargo planes. After the seats have been ripped out and husky floors and big doors or hatches installed, the ships will hop-skip all over the U.S. with ammunition, spare parts, engines, even big two-and-a-half-ton machine tools. All this will be done by the airlines...
...Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, the Battle of Britain might have to be won on the ploughed fields of an island traditionally never more than a hop, skip & amp; a jump ahead of starvation. Into the fields last week Britain sent all her schoolchildren, rich & poor alike. The farming problem was acute...
...Ever scientific, the German radio has made use of the well-known skip in short waves (they travel in a series of bounces, hundreds of miles long, between the earth and an ionized upper stratum of atmosphere) to make Midwesterners wonder whether they harbored a disloyal station. "Station D-E-B-U-N-K," when picked up around Chicago on the earthward bounce, was heard referring to European stations as "over there" and urging folks to "fight the dictatorship . . . in Washington." FCC triangulations located it in western Europe...
There were many subjects that Adolf Hitler skipped in this week's speech to the Reichstag. He did not skip the cold Russian winter, and underlined the fact that the thermometer had dropped to 62° F below. He got in the "archcapitalist" British, the "scoundrel" Jews, the "criminal" Churchill, the "maniac" Roosevelt, the "heroic" Japanese, and the Almighty, of whom he asked "nothing more . . . than that He should bless us in the future as He has done in the past...