Word: twos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honey, I won't have to write you about those Minus Twos on my exam papers now because we have a new instructor and he has faithfully promised that he will take no less than three off for each mistake.... No, he does not have red hair...
...Major Maderis gave the Toledo plan their blessing. Major Maderis committed the War Department to a policy of breaking up big orders into their smallest workable units to help spread them to cities like Toledo. Taub told the manufacturers that it was "hope less to come to Washington in twos and threes, each presenting a small fraction of the major problem." But he promised that Toledo could count on defense orders as soon as it got organized as a single factory -machine shop under one roof, punch presses under another...
...Three times twelve tripled twelve times three tripled twenty-twos thrice, triple, twelve times, three thrice, tripled two twice tripled thirty-threes...
...owed them since that Sunday morning when Russians woke up to learn that Germany had invaded their country. It was his job to explain why he had promoted the 1939 Non-Aggression Pact with Germany, which enabled Adolf Hitler to pick off his enemies by ones and twos until he was free to tackle Russia. Taking to the microphone, with a big pitcher of tea at his elbow, Comrade Stalin saluted his fellow comrades in patriarchal tones...
...projectiles came over in twos, threes and fours (indicating four to six guns) at intervals of ten minutes to half an hour. At first they blew craters three feet deep in the frozen ground. Later, the craters increased to six feet deep, 18 feet across, as heavier explosive charges were used. Their military effect was nil and Viipuri's small remaining population soon got over the psychological effect...