Word: aa
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...worry, it's something our boys are putting up." When the enemy came over, the noise broke out, like dozens of summer storms. It was Tim Pile's new tactic. Instead of trying to hold enemy planes in the long fingers of searchlights and aiming at them, AA defenses set up a box barrage, all the guns firing at the same time into the darkness according to prescribed directions, forming a curtain of flying shrapnel. Splinters clattered like hail over 200 square miles of London...
...copceded an excellent chance to make the grade, but if he fails, he will probably be sent to Louisville, an AA league, for an additional year of seasoning...
Tethered to stakes at varying distances from the pole were 84 goats munching grass, occasionally maa-aa...
...goats munched, maa-aa-ed, waggled their dripping whiskers...
...doing so he had sold an interest in his daily to some of the biggest fortunes in the U. S. A roll call of his paper's stockholders reads like a list of Dun & Bradstreet's AA ratings. Some of them: John Hay ("Jock") Whitney; Marshall Field III; Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s George Huntington Hartford II; Chewing Gum's Philip Knight Wrigley; Marion Rosenwald Stern and her brother, Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Lawyer Garrard Bigelow Winston, Under Secretary of the Treasury in Calvin Coolidge's Administration; Producer Dwight Deere Wiman...