Word: spills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this talk added up to two strong implications: 1) the British were shirking, and 2) the U.S. High Command was foolhardy, at the expense of American lives. The Axis radio, delighted by the whole discussion, purred the inevitable question at U.S. listeners: "Is British blood too precious to spill on the sands of the Channel or the North Sea?" (With reverse reasoning, the Axis taunted Britain: "Whatever the initial contribution of the Yankees ... it will rest with the British to reinforce the failure of the enterprise or else to take the responsibility for its liquidation...
...experts rate her superior to most white amateurs and unquestionably the best skater of her race. Shy, timid and coal-black, she tried on her first pair of skates less than four years ago. Within six months she was mastering spirals, sit-down spins and stops -figures that spill many a veteran. A manager took Mabel in tow, dubbed her "The Swanee Snow Bird" because she was born in Florida, booked her at a scattering of Manhattan rinks. She learned how to dance on ice, how to skate, spin and jump on a rink six feet square...
Well, having been flushed to the surface, I might as well sing, spill the goods, come clean. Here's the full inside story, and the SERVICE NEWS is beating Pegler, Clapper, and Drew Pearson to it: Yale men have secretly banded together in order to wipe out for once and for all the Crimson Menace. Operating strictly under order from the Blue Square in New Haven, I revealed the intolerable conditions in the Ha'v'd Ya'd and got a DSC and a shiny new yo-yo from the PBY committee (Pour le Bettrement de Yale), Fifth Column Division...
...attack was three-pronged, striking at Massacre Bay, Holtz Bay and Blind Cove. As the lighters pressed on the beaches at Massacre Bay to spill their cargoes of men, tanks and artillery, there was no sign of the enemy except for sporadic machine-gun fire...
...Washington last week hurried Colonel Frederick Smith, deputy chief of staff of MacArthur's Fifth Air Force, fresh from the Pacific theater with a lot of information and permission to spill some of it. This was his estimate of Jap air power there...