Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject to certain articles of war, articles that cover union men as well as Navy yeomen, battleships as well as battered Liberties. In port, these crews, as civilians, had prerogatives denied members of the Armed Forces. The stories of the strikes and slow-downs are circulated with hardly a word about the overwhelming number of incidents which proved the overall reliability of the personnel of the Merchant fleet...
...human cargo on this stretch of lonely beach. The operation had been carefully planned. Strategie defenses were set up and the approaching roads were mined. As night fell, some hundred young men and women took their assigned positions, and waited. They waited far into the night but no word or sight of the boat. In the early hours of the morning they gave it up and disbanded. The next day communication was re-established with the Hannah Szenesh, which had run into engine trouble just off the territorial water. She would try once more tonight. The operation...
...British General Staff credits Haganah with having a reserve of some 75,000 men under arms. It is, in every sense of the word, a people's army. Its active, striking force is called the Palmach, and numbers some few thousand members, who have voluntarily enlisted. The British have been aware of Haganah and Palmach since the earliest days of their existence, have helped build their organization, trained their members, furnished them with materials and even utilized their power, for their own purposes. In 1936, Brigadier General Orde Wingate, of Burma fame, came to Palestine on Intelligence duty...
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...faithful she is! ... I believe she understands every word I say. ... I know for a fact that when some dogs in history had died, their humans lay down on the grave and howled all night. ... It was just instinct, of course, not real intelligence, but all the same it makes you think. I believe that when a human dies it goes to a special heaven for humans, with kind dogs to look after it. It may be sentimental of me, but there it is. Poor things, why shouldn't they...