Word: bitefuls
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...children made a game of Goebbels' informing Hitler afeout the sinking of the French ships at Oran. Child Hitler: "Bring me my carpet that I may bite it." Child Goebbels: "Which flavor, mein Führer?" Child Hitler: "Lemon, Joe. And I'll have a nibble at the raspberry...
...chief raw material is wastepaper-old newspapers, discarded wrappings, magazines. Only 28% of the nation's paper is now recovered. About 50% is lost in furnaces and rubbish heaps. Last year the junkmen collected about 5,500,000 tons-about half 1942's needs. The defense bite alone (boxes for Army shells, etc.) is expected to take two-thirds of the industry's output...
...London air officials tallied a two-year bag of 7,170 Axis aircraft, exclusive of victories by their allies, counteracted rumors that ack-ack has bark but no bite by claiming 1,350 of these as anti-aircraft victims in France, Britain, the Middle East...
...arrived in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. last spring with an incredible proposal: a group of college boys & girls wanted the town to give them a tough job at manual labor-and they would pay for the privilege of doing it. Wilkes-Barre's puzzled citizens at first refused to bite. Eventually young Stanley Mesavage, industrial forester for the Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce, who was worried about forest fires that annually ravage the nearby Poconos, persuaded State and U.S. forestry officials to accept the collegians' offer...
...Duke of Kent is expected soon to inspect the pilot-training setup in Canada. Meantime his Duchess ducked reviewing a detachment of WRENS in England. Announced trouble: a cold. Real trouble: a wasp bite under her beautiful right...