Word: snubbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieut. Maslov commanded a British Valentine (16-ton) tank. He had trouble pronouncing Valentine, but liked the tank. He had a snub nose, tow hair and knew English. He talked of Dickens, Chaucer and Sterne by the hour. He and others in his tank regiment gave Russian Correspondent Ilya Ehrenburg the best measure yet recorded of Allied aid to the U.S.S.R.: "Were our front only 100 miles long, we could say we have enough British tanks." The Russian front is 2,000 miles long...
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Chief disadvantage of contrarotating propellers is maintenance: warplanes, landing on small unlighted fields by night, snub and flatten their noses all too often, and the propellers' intricate gearing mechanisms are hard to repair. But as motors become ever more powerful, torque-and the need to overcome it-becomes an increasing problem...
...understand that our young people are going to speak this Sunday to all of you American young people. I entreat you to heed their voice and not snub them. We, the Russians, are human beings like others and in this struggle not the least in courage, patriotism, lofty idealism and love of mankind...
...Ground adjoins the new Dodge Truck plant on Detroit's Mound Road. Of the 79,000 trucks which the Army is getting from Chrysler, 55,000 have been delivered. All four-wheel drives, they range from half-ton command cars (two-seaters with a canvas top and a snub-nose hood) to one-and-a-half-ton "cargo motor transports" (plain, everyday small-size trucks). For the benefit of the visitors barrel-bellied "Frenchy" Raes, chief test driver for Dodge, gave one of the little command cars and a truck the works. Frenchy's working outfit...