Word: spanners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spanner thrower they had in mind was Jinnah. If he refuses to cooperate, the Congress will likely go ahead and form an interim government. Jinnah would then have a clear choice between cooperation and civil...
After three months' apprenticeship, novice munitions workers become full-fledged members of the Guy Fawkes Club, eligible to wear the club badge: a gilt portcullis on a field of blue, above a crossed hammer and spanner bearing the motto: "With Which We Work" over the red rose of England...
...girls what to expect in their husbands' country. Welcome to War Brides, issued by the Wartime Information Board and the Department of National Defense, contains everything from geography lessons to shopping hints, and a glossary explaining, for example, that in Canada a joint is a roast, a spanner is a wrench, and corn is wheat. Typical advice...
...First Spanner...
...visited the Portsmouth naval base, there bestowed honors on a "suicide squad" of five from H. M. S. Vernon (as the combined Portsmouth barracks and naval laboratory are still called, after an old training ship long since rotted away). They were the men who, "with undaunted courage and a spanner," sloshed out between tides on a windy foreshore to where, half buried in mud, lay a magnetic mine-first specimen obtained by the Royal Navy's explosion experts. Unbolting the case, ignoring ominous hisses and tickings, Lieut. Commander, Roger Lewis at last thrust his arm inside the mine, unscrewed...