Word: soled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Serrano Suñer found the road to success was comparatively easy. While his fat-bottomed brother-in-law, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, was crushing Spanish Loyalists, Serrano skulked behind the lines, building up the Falange Espanola Tradicionalista. As head Falangista, Serrano controlled Spain's sole political party with a claimed membership of some 2,500,000. As head of the Ministry of Press and Propaganda he controlled what all Spaniards (supposedly) read and thought. As Minister of the Interior he controlled what they ate and when they went to prison. When he became Foreign Minister in 1940, he tried...
...also enrolled in ROTC would, he felt, in all probability stay in college; while those in the ERC, over 20 and not in the ROTC, may expect to be called up after January with the possibility of having to take some training in ROTC. Colonel Doniat added that his sole source of information was the newspaper article and that it suggested that plans were not entirely completed...
...actions of a number of the Mil Sci men, whose respect for the United States Army and for the uniform of the Army is so small as to lead them to don those same uniforms, issued to them for drill purposes only, on weekend evenings for the sole purpose of obtaining half-price admission to the Boston theatres. The theatres have adopted the low admission price as a service and a favor to the low-paid men who are on active duty as full-time soldiers in a fighting army--not for a few Harvard men who spend...
...World War I Brazil was the sole South American nation to follow the U.S. lead into active belligerency...
...Brazil's 40,000,000 people. Up and down Brazil's 5,800-mile coastline, wallowing and pitching coastwise steamers provide shuttle service. For dozens of towns and villages, from Rio Grande Do Sul in the south to Belem, north of the bulge, these ships are the sole means of commerce, with the exception of airlines. Last year they carried over 150,000 passengers, nearly two million tons of freight, thousands of sacks of mail. To Brazil, 248,700 square miles larger than the U.S. but with only 20,000 miles of railroads (mostly extending westward...