Word: wrings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...athlete's foot now. . . . Whenever possible (in combat) remove your shoe pacs and massage your feet. This should be done every twelve hours. . . . Spare socks are your most valuable piece of extra clothing. Change to dry socks whenever possible, and if they are not available wring out your wet socks before putting them back...
Last week Vice Admiral Frederick J. Horne, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, slugged the nation with a guess calculated to wring the hands and freeze the marrow. Said Admiral Horne: "The main point is that we are planning material and ships for a war that will last at least until 1949. And that is not pessimistic...
...will be a terrible thing to contemplate--the spectacle of Soldiers Field gradually transforming itself into a jungle of cat-tails and Scotch thistles. And the thought of the press-box silent as an examination hall, the stillness broken only by gnawing of the termites, is one that could wring tears from a city editor...
Plain were two propaganda objectives in this and other recent German speeches: > To play on the fear of defeat in order to wring new sacrifices from the German people, and keep them united internally. > To divide Russia from her allies by harping on the familiar theme that Germany is the European bulwark against Bolshevism...
...Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was presently embarrassed by a protest from a delegation of 20 ultra-Conservative M.P.s, headed by excitable Major Victor Alexander Cazalet, whose present job is aide to Poland's General Sikorski. In the House of Commons, Wing Commander Archibald William Henry James tried to wring from the Government the assurance that no post-war territorial settlement would be made without first submitting the proposal to Parliament...