Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese last week took another step towards liquidating all Christian influence in their "co-prosperity sphere." This abolished religious instruction in public schools throughout the Philippines. Since most of the Filipinos are Roman Catholics, this is indirectly a slap at the Vatican, with which Japan established diplomatic relations last spring...
...Moscow, Kalinin, Orel and Voronezh fronts, has shot down about 200 German planes, and in six attacks recently destroyed 167 planes on the ground. The group has lost 20 Russian planes and 13 pilots. "Twenty for one is a good enough average," Boris says with smiling eyes and a slap on his thigh...
...most plants, slogan contests are being run as an integral part of the committees' work. Samples: "Speed the Wheels to Beat the Heels" (from an American Steel & Wire sloganeer); "Speed 'Em for Freedom" (Curtiss-Wright); "Jappy, We'll Knock You Slap Happy" (Cincinnati's Boye & Emmes Machine Tool...
...naval builders could report that it was taking them only about three times as long to construct destroyers as it took Henry Kaiser's West Coast yards to slap together Liberty ships. One yard will build 21 destroyers this year-equivalent, says the Navy, to 105 Liberty ships. Prior to 1940, building time for a DD was 27-28 months. In 1942: eight months. Other samples of the speedup...
Presently the other passengers heard the sharp slap and the tiny squall. Genially Dr. Conly asked one woman for her turban, and in it he wrapped the eight-pound boy. For another day Mrs. Mohorovicic kept her newborn baby warm by snuggling him inside her lifebelt. Then a rescue ship drew alongside. The newborn child was handed up to a startled seaman. No assistance was needed for sturdy, 28-year-old Desanka Mohorovicic. She clambered up the cargo net, took a shower before she turned in. Last week, in a Norfolk, Va. hospital, she was feeling fine, getting ready...