Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last summer General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell called three of his officers into the Cairo headquarters of the Imperial Army of the Nile. He was worried about rumored Italian plans to slice in through the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from southeastern Libya. But to get firsthand accounts of Italian troop and supply dispositions meant a hazardous trek of over 1,000 miles across rocky, dune-ribbed desert. The three men before him jumped at the job. For ten years they had made a sport of just such traveling, spending their vacations exploring the Sahara. Within six weeks they had trained...
...basic strength of 1,400,000 officers and men, found last week that it had to take a crack at Henry Ford, lest Ford's fight with C. I. O. get the Army embroiled with labor. Recently the Army invited automakers to make competitive bids on a big slice of its truck business: 11,781 half-ton trucks to be used for field radio centres, reconnaissance cars, ambulances, etc. Last week the War Department announced that the order had gone not to the low bidder but to Fargo Motor Corp. of Detroit, a subsidiary of Chrysler. Accepted...
...first outside power. "I have formal assurance," he declared, "that Germany does not intend to attack either Rumania or anyone else." A few months later he was in Rome pleading with Mussolini to dissuade Hitler from occupying Hungary. War brought him wholly into the Axis camp. His reward: a slice of Rumania...
...music to your cars, drop in at 67a Mt. Auburn Street almost any time, and pull up a cracker box. When not on the courts, coaches Jack Barnaby and Dick Dorson spend most of their time in the shop, discussing strategy with their players or demonstrating a new slice backhand--to the imminent danger of life, limb, and the surrounding show-cases. Squad lists and tournament draw cards litter the room, for this is the indoor center of Harvard's tennis and squash activity...
...Argentina never recognized Britain's rights to the Falklands, still insists they belong to Argentina and that the Falklands' slice of the Antarctic is also Argentine. As further evidence of ownership Argentina has maintained a meteorological observatory in the South Orkneys for 36 years, is the only nation to make good its claims by permanent occupation...