Word: whisk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newsmen met Montgomery in his desert headquarters. He sat through the interview with a fly whisk balanced steadily on one finger. "I have defeated the enemy. I am now about to smash him," he asserted flatly, relaxed and asked: "How do you like my hat?" Then wearing a tank corps beret which he had picked up, he climbed into a tank and rumbled off after his troops like a skinny avenging angel...
...Army is now training two squadrons of huge, long-distance hospital planes. These planes will be assisted by another squadron of lighter air ambulances which will whisk wounded soldiers away from points close to the front lines to points where they can be shifted to the larger planes. Purpose: to assure U.S. soldiers of treatment at a fully equipped hospital during the precious first hours after severe injury, when chances for recovery are doubled or tripled...
...Venezuela and Colombia, Standard has several air ambulances to whisk emergency cases from the field to hospitals. Between Barranca and El Centro, Colombia, it operates a unique rail ambulance...
...camouflaged tent at the headquarters of the 13th Corps, Churchill lunched on prawns mayonnaise, ham and tongue, rolls, butter and cold beer. Airmen invited to meet the "distinguished Mr. Bullfinch" reported that when he whammed a fly with 39 his long-tailed Egyptian fly whisk, he paused to comment dryly: "I don't think that was a probable, gentlemen." In an impromptu speech to flyers just off patrol duty, he said: "You have fought a battle comparable with the Battle of Britain. You need not doubt that you will be supplied with the best equipment...
...never liked Wordsworth in prep school, but today he had to admit that the old duck wasn't half bad. He was drawing near Larz Anderson Bridge now, and he felt wonderful as he idly watched single sculls whisk by far below. Then, he was over on the other side of the river. He turned towards Newell and suddenly espied two pug-nosed Cambridge waifs sitting on the bank fishing. Vag looked at them grandiloquently. "Salve, piscatores," he said. "Same to you, fish-face," came the reply...