Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would offend the son of heaven, and that we must renounce a military governorship or invasion of Japan. This unfortunate position ranks with the belief that Korea should be left to Japan as a mandate! This reflects British Imperial policy, of the days of Chamberlain, and his patented folding umbrella...
...seized the town of Djedeida, twelve miles from Tunis, and all but isolated that city from Bizerte. Nehring destroyed roads, blew up bridges, dug in for defense. Milch sent his dive-bombers screeching overhead. From Algeria came word that as soon as Doolittle's fighters could spread an umbrella, the First Army would make its final, headlong charge into the fire...
...opposite of stop sign. An erg is an urge. A millimeter is a bug with a large number of legs." Many members of the class were heard to say when leaving that some of Ufford's experiments were infinitely more amusing, recalling the time to whipped out an umbrella from behind the table to shield himself during one of the wetter ones...
...convoy. Said the British account: "Our bombers only thought they were out on the biggest U-boat hunt of the war. They had no idea that just west across the Bay our convoy was slipping through to Africa." As the convoy neared Africa, bombers from Gibraltar made an umbrella for the landings. Fifty submarines menaced the convoy. By last week Prime Minister Churchill was able to announce that 13 had been sunk off North Africa...
...press rushed to the fore the gaunt, sourpuss, frock-coated figure of Old Man Prohibition. One cartoon showed him with a dishonorable discharge (1933) in his pocket, squatting under an umbrella in the halls of Congress; the heading said: "Tenting on the old Camp Ground!" (see cut, p. 23). He pointedly reminded Americans of their "noble experiment." To jar further the memories of the forgetful, the New York World-Telegram began reprinting news stories of the 19205. One from Aurora, 111.: "State dry agents today stormed the home of Joseph De King, 40, after bombarding it with gas bombs, killed...