Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ration is three a month. Baked spaghetti and macaroni dishes are almost impossible to make, because farinaceous foods are either unobtainable or rationed to near zero. Soho shops still sell ravioli occasionally, but it is filled only with spinach. Most people have forgotten the taste of cheese or wish they could forget it. All sausage is partly packed with bread crumbs. More than a quarter of a pound of sugar might be allotted each person weekly if so much were not being sent...
...recent combat, an untried youngster missed one Jap Zero after another. "Look, Joe," said Sergeant Silva, "you're not leading them enough, and your shots are going behind them." Silva grabbed the gun and squinted from the Flying Fortress turret. Four Zeros flashed by. Three of them, perhaps the fourth fell apart under Silva's fire. "See, Joe?" Silva yelled. During the same fracas, the pilot inquired over the Fortress interphone: "Are you firing at the enemy?" Sergeant Silva replied: "Sir, I've already shot down two, goddamit...
Last week Japanese Zero fighters roared over the graves at Broome. Machine guns and aircraft cannon peppered the town and its airdrome, while 650 miles around the curve of the coast, at Wyndham, the Zeros struck again. At the oft-hit port of Darwin, they completed a pattern of things to come: Darwin, Wyndham, Broome are places to be invaded. With them in hand, the Japs would command Australia's northern coast, the wild interior desert which lies between the upper coast and southern Australia...
...Pierre and Miquelon. Lieut. Commander Ralph Hickox, skipper of the elderly flush-deck destroyer Truxtun, knew he was somewhere near the end of the spit, but he could not see. The wind was blowing more than 60 miles an hour and low-flying scud dropped the visibility toward zero. The Truxtun ran aground. So did the naval supply ship Pollux. The waves, pounding in like sledgehammers to the base of a 200-ft. cliff, began to break the two ships...
Sweet-toothed citizens, queuing up for the first ration cards the U.S. has seen, heard two hard facts repeated by doctors, dentists, dietitians: 1) we have been eating too much sugar anyway, 2) even if the U.S. sugar ration dropped to zero, we would probably be healthier than we are now. Reasons...