Word: slating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warmer weather eases the strain of navigating the mist-curtained Arctic sea lanes to Murmansk. But such meteorological relief works alike for friend & foe. Last week Luftwaffe planes spotted a huge Allied convoy specking the slate-grey sea between Iceland and Norway's North Cape. They engaged the convoy in a running, four-day battle, claimed to have inflicted grave losses: 14 ships sunk, 16 damaged. No confirmation came from any Allied source...
Adelbert Ames III, Thomas Matters, and Frederick Barton Harvey, Jr. were elected to the first, second, and third Class Marshal's post last night as the two-day balloting session to pick the eight man slate of 1943 officers ended...
...been added by petition to the 31 named by the Student Council nominating committee, and one name dropped. Mark Yohalem was added to the Chorister list and Charles Fenno Hoffman, Jr. to the Poet nominations. Robert Frederick Kolkebeck has asked that his name be dropped from the Treasurer's slate...
...second time in a row Mort Waldstein, Crimson strikeout specialist, had a shutout practically cinched going into the last inning and then blew all chances for a clean slate with a sloppily-played ninth...
Past armed sentries in the corridors walk all the uniforms of the English-speaking allies: gold-braided British and U.S. Navy men, R.A.F. men in slate blue. U.S. Army and Air Force men in their brown blouses and "pink" slacks. The British have the third floor, U.S. officers the second floor. On the first floor is the promise of even wider cooperation. There are quartered the Chinese, headed by Major General Chu Shih-ming; there also are the beginnings of representation for The Netherlands, Australia...