Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieutenant Forte, who served on the heavy cruiser Augusta, is confident that we will not make the same mistake of scrapping American naval might after this war. "In peacetime you don't need as many men as in war; In fact you could probably slice off almost three quarters of your officers now needed to man all battle stations...
...Iowa a "part-time T." The Boston (professional) Yanks call theirs the Q.T. Washington's Coach Ralph ("Pest") Welch, who took on a T with man-in-motion last year, this year dropped the man-in-motion, spread his linemen (see diagram) for a basic off-tackle slice, scrambled this formation with the old Notre Dame box style of offense (a man on each corner). In the quiet of the locker room, he calls this conglomeration the "bastard...
Tripartition. Two facts stuck out of this formula with bayonet sharpness: 1) the plan amounted to a partition of Germany-and the political and economic consequences for Europe might not be so apparent to Washington as they were to London and Moscow; 2) Russia's slice of occupied Germany would consist chiefly of the Junker and a large docile peasant population-manpower for rebuilding Russia's destroyed cities. Britain would receive the restless proletarian population of the ports and the industrial Ruhr and Rhine...
Wagner: Tristan & Isolde, Excerpts from Act III (Lauritz Melchior and Herbert Janssen with the orchestra of the Colon Opera, Buenos Aires, and the Columbia Opera Orchestra, Roberto Kinsky and Erich Leinsdorf, conductors; Columbia; 10 sides). A superb slice of Tristan's last act, including almost everything except the famed Liebestod (which is separately available). Melchior, greatest of living Tristans, sings his mad scene as though he meant it. Recording: excellent...
Among the "unconditional surrender" conditions which the Allies were reported ready to grant Rumania were: independence, recognition of Mihai as King, a return of the big slice of Transylvania which Hitler handed over to Hungary in 1940. Rumanian troops were already battling Hungarian troops for Transylvania...