Word: whitsunday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whitsuntide, when the dead Christ's Apostles began work in earnest, had been chosen by Adolf Hitler to get his total war under way. Whitsunday is a big British holiday but the holiday was canceled and the Government called on every Briton to keep a sharp eye aloft for Nazi invaders. King George called 2,500,000 more conscripts to the colors, and the War Office announced that soon there will be in the British Isles some 4,500,000 prospective soldiers in various stages of training...
...Whitsunday Pete Fitzgerald knelt before the white-&-gold altar of Seattle's big St. James's Cathedral, received from Bishop Shaughnessy the Pope's reward...