Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Behind is ... testimony to the power of artillery: hole upon hole, fragment upon fragment, a worn shred torn from the Völkischer Beobachter, the soggy yellow bones of a hand, helmets, old shoes, pieces of steel, an unexploded stick of bombs, unidentifiable fragments...
...five minutes after seven he was nearing his half-dreaded goal. As he approached the front door, all Vag's hitherto generalized confusion centered on one specific fear: he had no car . . . would she mind going into Boston on the subway? Of course she would. She had worn an expensive dress at the dance. And a fur wrap too. The dress and the wrap came before his mind's eye in painful detail. Why hadn't he thought of borrowing a car? He was over half an hour late as it was, so maybe she had gone to supper with...
...week for Benito Mussolini. For months the world had been unmercifully kidding him and his folding armies. He looked very bald and worn and old. But now he had a chance to stand beside his good friend, the world's most fearsome citizen, on the Russian Front. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt had talked for three days. To outdo their enemies Benito listened to Adolf for five...
...week from a visit to Russia's front as chief of the British Military Mission was Lieut. General Frank Noel Mason MacFarlane, a pukka sahib, the archetype of British sporting soldiery, a man who had stuck pigs in India, raced autos in the Alps, shot grouse in Scotland, worn the kilt in Budapest, and in between times been military attache in Berlin (1937-39) and Army Commander at Gibraltar (1940-41). He thought the Reds were a bit of all right. His report...
...fightin' in August!" That's what Joe Louis told Promoter Mike Jacobs last winter when his fight-a-month campaign was first laid out. Reason: August is the climax of the Negro golf season. And the world's greatest fisticuffer, in the four years he has worn the crown, has become more & more bored with his profession, more & more enthusiastic about golf...