Word: tote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighters of the U.S. Eighth Air Force (ordinarily bombers' escorts) destroyed nearly 1,000 trucks and vehicles. The Ninth Air Force fighters ran up an even larger score-nearly 1,800 vehicles. The big strategic bombers-Fortresses and Liberators, night-flying Lancasters and Halifaxes, every aircraft that could tote a bomb-raked the lines of retreat that reached back to Paris...
...bookmakers. Big tracks license 150 or more for each meeting. Two shillings (40?) is the totalizator minimum bet. But greyhound bookies. who wear bowlers and an air of everlasting love for bettors, jump to take a one bob wager. They pride themselves on paying off faster than the tote, take ?1,000 bets as well as one bob wagers in stride. Around their stalls at White City and Wembley, crisp ?5 notes (the largest now printed) crackle like pine kindling...
...pioneering for the Haines cutoff. Without adequate maps or a ground survey, three companies of the 340th Engineers pushed into the snow late last winter. Location parties used dog teams and native guides. Working with limited equipment in winter weather, the "Hairy Ears" found a way, slashed out a tote road...
...amiable Daniel De Luce had got into Yugoslavia, how long he would be able to stay, how he was getting his dispatches out. Good guess was that he had gone in with some Allied officers who are known to have reached Partisan Army headquarters; that Allied torpedo boats probably tote his dispatches across the Adriatic Sea to Italy...
Tempo, Timetable. Long John's speed and success come from his habit of planning everything to a split minute. His "muck trains" tote out debris on a rail road timetable basis; his sweating rockhogs know exactly how far they must bore. (Long John expects to get through in four months.) To help his men Long John several years ago designed and built a huge, seven-ton drill carriage which uses six bits instead of four. Added incentives are high wages and bonuses, three-shift operations. Most effective of all, Long John is the kind his men understand...