Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barracks, oil tanks, coastal guns, ack-ack batteries, power plants, a water-distilling plant, ammunition dumps were destroyed. Yet toward the end of the second day Jap small-caliber guns put up ack-ack fire. Some of the younger U.S. pilots were puzzled. But old hands and the high command knew that only direct hits by aerial bombs could wipe out the burrowed Japs. A naval officer estimated that 85% to 90% of the enemy garrison were still alive. Unless the Jap evacuated, marines or infantry would still have to fight for Wake...
Princes and Palestine. Few days before, two main foes of the main Jewish idea had been feted, dined, greeted, and generally given the full red-carpet treatment. The foes: Prince Feisal, Foreign Minister to Saudi Arabia's wily Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, and younger brother Prince Khalid. The grave, observant Arab Princes, ostensibly here to study "Southwest irrigation projects," thus far seemed to be spending a great deal more time with diplomatic bigwigs than in inspecting irrigation ditches...
...confused with his younger brother, Caesar James Petrillo, of Chicago, leader of a CBS dance band...
...younger generation is worthy of respect. "We have heard that its members were soft. Golly, if that generation is soft, I don't know what it is going to be when it gets tough...
Married. Robert Benchley Jr., 24, Norden (bombsight) employe, younger son of the humorist; and Elizabeth Dickinson, 23, socialite social worker; in Detroit. Like his father (and brother Nathaniel), he is an ex-president of Harvard's Lampoon...