Word: impedimenta
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This opinion, of competent soldiers on the spot, was based on a compound of good news. The steady flow of American ships carrying troops, planes and all the impedimenta of war continued, so broadly that this week several brands of American cigarets were being issued to troops. Dutch air units, which had reached Australia planeless, were now ready for action. The Philippine and Tokyo raids lifted morale, while the Allied raids on New Guinea and New Britain carried on a positive defense - keeping the Japanese in enough confusion so that they apparently could not mount an attack, at least...
...twenty-one years old. Dull months of R.A.F. training routine during the "phony"' war had left him impatient of routine precautions. For him, no such impedimenta as gauntlets and goggles. Barehanded, open-eyed, through 23 days of combat duty at the peak of the Battle for Britain he went against the Messerschmitts. He had downed his quota in dogfights, learned to "Beware of the Hun in the Sun," to go into a spin when bullets started appearing along his port wing. "There is an appalling tendency," he remarks, "to sit and watch this happen without taking any action...
Much more than speedways for vacationing Nazis, the Autobahnen have potent military significance. Logistics experts calculate that soldiers with all their impedimenta can be trucked over any stretch of the system, using only one strip, at the rate of 72,000 an hour. Thus German officers, particularly those of the younger, mechanized generation, are convinced that the Autobahnen will supplant railroads as the prime mode of wartime transport...
...knows deep down inside that he'll stay in his own pasture. Gridiron glory is not for the lackadaisical type such as he. Instead this afternoon he'll provide himself with a Wellesley Miss, fortify himself with all his stadium impedimenta, and be off to Soldiers Field to watch the season's premiere against the Browns. As far as the game is concerned the Vag promises to confine himself to yelling. He figures that some of the other boys can probably take care of the ball-toting and signal calling well enough...
Yellow Season: a big canvas painted in a monotone of mustard yellow with twiggy lines here and there, the shape of a pump indicated, some clothes on a line, gradually more lines taking shape as backyard impedimenta, hints of flowers, and finally a perspective of May sunshine up a hill with slashes of blue sky over...