Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kanahele took a swallow and tightened up his malo [loincloth...
Already the industries which help to make Stalingrad vital to Russia were disrupted by the approaching siege lines. Thousands of factory workers laid down their tools and streamed westward to take up guns with the embattled Red Army. Bunker by bunker, from every concrete pillbox and every swallow's nest hollowed nastily from the earth, the Russians were putting up a defense of Stalingrad that would rank at least with those of Sevastopol and Rostov. Unquenchable in their hearts was the hope that in the end it would rank with Leningrad and Moscow-prizes that once were within...
They drill after sundown in small groups, grimly determined to pivot smartly on the command of "Squads right." They swallow their bitterest potion-barrack life, bunk to bunk-without a murmur on the invasion of their privacy. (One WAAC did use her weekend liberty two weeks after induction to take a large double room in the Fort Des Moines Hotel and sit happily alone in the middle of it.) For four hours a day, for a full day and a half at week's end the WAACs can do what they please. When the study hall closes...
...little hard to swallow, a review of the Union's past will mellow the gloomy outlook. When it was first opened in 1901, its appearance was unrecognizable to any present undergraduate. The original disposition of rooms and corridors revealed a Baroque cross-plan...
...medicine, saying: "Three tons of quinine are worth three tons of guns." To counteract hoarding, the Government announced that American Red Cross supplies were coming in, would be dumped on the market. The Government set up quinine shops in Chungking, where quinine is sold only to patients who swallow it in the shop...