Word: ts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under arrest and liable to prompt liquidation were Estonia's onetime President Konstantin Päts, Latvia's onetime President Karlis Ulmanis and Foreign Minister Vilhelms Hunters, Lithuania's onetime Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys. Special justice, including immediate confiscation of property and execution within 24 hours if they are bagged, was decreed for diplomats abroad who refuse to recognize the new regimes and return home...
...year, "Break Up the Yankees" has been baseball's war cry. Too smart, too smooth, too powerful, the "greatest machine in the history of baseball" made other clubs in the American League look like Model Ts racing a Miller Special. Last week the question might have been raised: Is New York still in the league?*The mighty Yankees, odds-on favorites to win their league pennant for the fifth year in a row, chugged along in last place-with only seven victories in 21 games. They had not broken up, but they had, at least temporarily, broken down...
...last week by James Henderson Stewart, M. P.: let the Scots wear their kilts until actual fighting begins, then change to the battle dress (like ski suits) which all other British troops wear. Said Scot Stewart: "If a mon does a spot o' plumbin' he p'ts on a plumber's garb, but when it's over, he disnae hae to keep on bein' a plumber...