Word: towel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stonewall" defender in Italy. To Allied minds who know the Nazi mind best it appeared likely that Kesselring was chosen not primarily for his generalship, but as the commander who might best-from the Nazi point of view-take the Allied knockout punch or throw in the towel...
...year her stories have been entertaining Bostonians, so well that at times they drew as many as 300 responses, a considerable number of them from grownups. Sample story ingredients: a milk bottle, a violin, and a rake; a jockey, some snow, and a duck. Next week: an egg, a towel, and a light-all about an egg that almost cracks under the strain of modern living...
...Minister would ask the Prime Minister to relieve him of his job. But that possibility could not be ruled out. Said the Ottawa Journal: "Many experts [believe] that McNaughton won't answer the bell [for the next round], that Mackenzie King . . . will advise him to throw in the towel...
...Towel Too. By the end of the day, when the war birds homed to their carriers, columns of smoke towered 7,000 feet over Tokyo's airfields. Mitscher's boys call this treatment the "Mitscher shampoo." Next day, they were at it again, but there were fewer parked aircraft, and many loosed their bombs and bullets at inviting fixed targets: an aircraft factory and three engine plants. Along the waterfront were floating targets, choicest of all in Navy flyers' estimation: they sank a destroyer, two destroyer escorts, a freighter and many coastal craft; an escort carrier...
...broken? Help me out of this hole." I reached down and took hold of Stanley Gunn's hand and began trying to lift him gently. A few seconds later when the other correspondents wobbled in with flashlights I realized that there was no hole.. I grabbed a towel and twisted it around his leg for a tourniquet. Gunn was magnificent in spite of the terrible wounds he had suffered. He sat partly up and watched me get the towel adjusted, and even held it himself for a while. Clete Roberts ignored an injured wrist and started...