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...R.A.F. first learned about the little creatures in 1923 and called them gremlins -probably from the obsolete Old English-transitive verb greme, meaning: to vex. Yet it was not until World War II that the R.A.F. really got to know the gremlins. Then they learned that a female gremlin is a finella and that the babies are widgets. Flyers also learned that gremlins must always be referred to as them; gremlins prefer them to they or it or he and she because them conveys a feeling of the gremlin's immanence and nameless power...
...coal fields; to John Wilkes Booth's accomplices, including Mary Surratt, first woman ever hanged in the U.S. He also includes British body-snatcher William Burke, who added a wrinkle to the illicit business of selling bodies for medical dissection by creating his own corpses, and added a verb to the English language-to burke (to murder without telltale traces...
...R.A.F., making good Churchill's promise to make "rostockize" a more sinister verb than "coventrize,"* revisited ruined Rostock, then flew eight miles farther north to Warnemünde, aircraft-manufacturing center and U-boat training base. As the night flyers came in through fog, intense artillery fire greeted them-but no searchlights...
...When you are asked to answer a series of questions, always put down some answer, for you will probably be given no credit for nothing, but at least partial credit for anything at all," they continued. "When writing your answers, use an interesting style, not just subject, verb, object over and over again...
...odds the most intense concern of plain folk is food: "The verb 'to eat' is conjugated in every possible way whenever two people meet." By 3 on the afternoon of the day Antwerp fell, huge trucks were hauling the city's two-to-four-year stores back to Germany...