Word: staccatos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while Laval was singing the praises of Hitler's New Order to the staccato tune of German firing squads executing more than 65 French hostages in Rouen, St. Nazaire and Paris, five top members of Vichy's Embassy in Washington headed by Counselor Léon Marchal, saw fit to resign their posts and join the De Gaullist Free French movement...
Under the staccato commands of the Battalion Commander, the Unit was put through the Manual of Arms--right shoulder, left shoulder and present arms. The list of special prizes was read off, and the student winners stepped out of the ranks and formed a line before the reviewing stand for the presentation. Lieutenant D. G. Maraspin, USNR, Secretary of the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, made the awards which the society gives for general excellence They were presented to William Wesselhoeft '42 and Maynard M. Miller...
...minutes before midnight, footsteps clumped swiftly down the corridors, doors were rapped in staccato, a voice called: "Everybody up in the diner. The Prime Minister wants...
DOUBLE OR QUITS-A. A. Fair-< Morrow ($2). Accidental poisoning of a California doctor looks queer to pint-sized Donald Lam, who clears it up in his own rough, ready and staccato fashion. The plot is more intricate than in earlier Lam tales; the solving just as good or better...
...when he gives the Long Cheer, for in Aristo phones' "The Frogs" the frogs yell at the people going to the underworld. "Bre-ke-ke-kex," which translated into American vernacular means "Go to h--, you bums." At the same time, the bre-ke-ke-kex is the three staccato dots and the long dash which stand for "V" for Victory." --From the Yale News...