Word: away
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deadwood, and "Bertie," the cook, bustled about the kitchen "fixin' company dinner"; while Mrs. Ettie Garner tended her correspondence in the little office-house in the back yard; in the Garner garage Uvalde's garageman, Ross Brumfield, for 20 years the "Boss's" hunting companion, stowed away hunting gear in Mr. Garner's 1926 Chevrolet roadster-only car the wealthy banker-cattleman owns...
...advice. Aides said he might celebrate Christmas on the 25th at the Westwall with the troops. Last week rustic Nazi pagan neighbors of the Fuhrer at Berchtesgaden announced that on Christmas Eve they will gather on the mountain crags above his snuggery "to shoot guns and pistols to frighten away the spirits of darkness...
...sent Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain the British Navy's triumph over the Admiral Graf Spee (see p. 20) to divert public interest from any Government shortcomings in the conduct of the war. Jubilant M. P.s, convinced more than ever that Britain rules the waves and eager to get away for the holidays, gave the Cabinet easy sailing...
Miserly, always shabbily dressed, old August Thyssen used to drink beer and eat wurst with his workers. Consistently he kept away from politicians and society, and when it was suggested that he appear at the German Imperial Court he replied that he had no suitable clothes for such an occasion...
Dawn: Dark enough to strike without giving too much away, light enough to set the victim up in silhouette. It was to be a simple operation. All the Admiral Graf Spec had to do was warn the plodding French freighter not to send out radio alarms, take off her jittery crew, shell her or set some TNT below, and give her a one-way ticket to Davy Jones. Then get away...