Word: soled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General MacArthur has direct strategic command of all Allied forces operating within the Southwest Pacific area. If Admiral Halsey wants to operate there, MacArthur is his strategic boss. Elsewhere, Admiral Halsey is under the sole command of Admiral Nimitz, CINCPAC and CINCPOA...
Golden Corn. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, an R.C.A.F. flier complained of corns, was examined by a medical officer who found $2,000 cached in the sole of his boot...
...Massachusetts, where less than 6% of the voters turned out for the primaries, the only excitement was on the Democratic side. Joseph B. Ely, twice Governor of Massachusetts and the sole avowed Democratic Presidential rival of Franklin Roosevelt, campaigned with the slogan: "Don't Copy Hitler . . . Reject Roosevelt." He won six of his state's 68 delegates...
...choice of the Democratic bosses, would lose the Democratic nomination. Yet last week when the primary votes were counted, Pat Heaton was 344 votes behind George W. Olsen, a baggy-clothed 62-year-old cafeteria bus boy at Omaha's Martin bomber plant, and an absolute political unknown. Sole reason for George Olsen's triumph: his Scandinavian name...
...Nazi generals, in the present situation, speedy Allied invasion may be welcome for a very practical reason : inflicting a disastrous defeat on such an invasion force is the sole remaining chance for Germany to avoid losing the war. If the Allies attacked prematurely, at a time when Nazi defensive strength was at its peak, that chance would be so much the brighter. To war-weary German civilians, invasion must also bulk large as the one development likely to bring a quick decision, win or lose...