Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year war with Germany. Having entered World War I along with Italy, its neighbor and protector, San Marino forgot to show up when peace treaties were signed at Sevres and Versailles. Everyone else forgot about San Marino. Even when the tiny Republic's new pro-Fascist twin regents outdid their master himself by both appearing on the same City Hall balcony to announce that everything was all changed now, San Marino hadn't quite caught up with current history; it is still at war with Turkey. No one thought about changing that after the last war either, until...
...Then as if in premonition of his death, Wolfe began to write so furiously that he became the first U. S. writer to leave two complete posthumous novels in the hands of his publisher. They were two of the longest one-volume novels (some 700 pages apiece) ever written -twin parts of a total autobiographical recall. First part was The Web and the Rock (1939). Second part was You Can't Go Home Again, published this week...
...sitting room was the real goal of the Democrats who trod the path of Term III, a tan-walled bedroom with green-spread twin beds, a screen, a telephone wire direct to the White House...
They smashed at Copenhagen's docks and shipyards. They played havoc at a favorite old spot, the many-railed freight yards and junction of Hamm. At Bremen they smacked the big Focke-Wulf aircraft plant where a new twin-tailed fighter with "swallowed" engine is being turned out, said to fly 400 m.p.h. Each side was "softening up" the other and a report from far-off Turkey carried by travelers from Germany indicated the kind of damage both sides were already suffering. According to the accounts the Rhineland populace was thoroughly terrorized by R. A. F.'s incessant...
With a volunteer crew, Bristowe entered a twin-motored ship's launch. Starting far offshore, it purred in quietly to the steel harbor net, which it passed over safely. Through the thick darkness Commander Bristowe felt his way undetected to the looming bulk of the Richelieu, and around under her stern. There to damage the giant's propellers and steering gear, his men put overboard a batch of depth charges so powerful that, when they went off, the harbor-heaving concussion knocked dead both of Bristowe's launch motors. As French shouts, searchlights and anti-aircraft fire...