Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...more concerned about the discomfort and discontent of little people. If anyone could hold their confidence, it was old Winnie. His fond grip on them grew every hour. Rich and poor alike paid him honor. Britain felt that it was cornered, but that Winnie would find a fence to climb over and a mine to hide...
Before he plunged into a war he thought was already won, Benito Mussolini used to talk of a daredevil air squadron called "I Disperati"-the desperate ones. These brave men, when the proper time came, would climb into the air in planes packed with TNT and dive to their death and to the glory of the fatherland smack into the middle of enemy ships...
General de Gaulle took to the radio in London. "France, crushed, humiliated and betrayed, is beginning to climb once more up the slope of the abyss," he cried to the Empire. From Winston Churchill came a quick letter of assurance that French colonies who supported England's cause would receive the same trade and political concessions as British possessions. The Vichy Government denounced Britain for fostering the revolt, discharged Eboue from his governorship, declared wishfully that "all necessary dispositions have been taken to localize the situation...
...blending job. But it won't hide freckles. In order to hide your freckles we'd have to make you as dark as an Indian and all the sparkle would be gone out of your face." Mrs. Fitzgerald offers suggestions on clothes, occasionally recommends that a visitor climb into a girdle...
...advantage of level-flight bombing from high altitude is that it keeps bombers out of effective range of anti-aircraft batteries, forces defending pursuit to climb higher and farther to give battle. Its only limitation in good weather is the accuracy of the bombsight...