Word: swellings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forward that heavy seas rolled up under them and in the case of at least one ship carried the forward end of the flight deck away. The Casablancas were an uncertain haven to returning planes, especially if the air was light and the ship was wallowing in a ground swell. Men nicknamed the carriers "Kaiser's Coffins...
...mixture is swell...
Mosquitoes and Shrews. As soon as they touched shore, clouds of mosquitoes descended on them, made their faces swell up like footballs. Years before, they were told, Alaskan Indians who captured white men simply tied their victims naked to trees, let the mosquitoes finish them. Once when Connie clapped her husband on the back she counted 100 squashed mosquitoes on her palm. They could understand why mosquitoes were considered "the most serious single obstacle . . . in the way of man's subjugation of the North...
...wrist watches (one set at Chungking time, the other at American E.W.T.), he turned up at the Red Cross Club, known to G.I.s in China as the "Java Dive." Staring at the unmistakable U.S. trappings, Henry Wallace said: "You've certainly created America here. It's swell." Then he stripped down to the waist for a volleyball game between officers and enlisted men, played in a drenching rain. Wallace teamed up with the G.I.s, fell flat on the muddy cement court...
...Lord Rosebery's Ocean Swell, a three-year-old, 28-to-1 shot; the 165th running of the English Derby, held in spite of the invasion and enemy "robot bombers," over the grassy, up-&-down Suffolk Stakes course at Newmarket. The crowd of 10,000 was less than one-fortieth the size of the last peacetime meeting...