Word: dis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew all the time that [the] U.S. was equal to greater emergencies than even this war - my intuition told me so. But since Hitler's intuition had fallen into such dis respect I didn't like to mention my source of information...
...wanna scrape up da choon gum of fa da sidewalks faw? Maybe dey wanna have a Park Avenoo over here instead of Broadway. Leave it ta hell alone or it won't be Broadway no more. Put up a sign dat says spit out your choon gum folks, dis is old Broadway; spit er out. Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone...
Every day last week, one of the 60 Birmingham bigwigs sat in the Chamber of Commerce offices, interviewed dis charged service men, and reached for the phone. With manpower short in Birmingham, jobs were easy to find. But the Chamber of Commerce is looking ahead to the time when jobs may not be so plentiful, when the personal call from a business leader will get a service man a job he might otherwise miss. This virtue of the plan has already caught the eye of 35 other Chambers of Commerce. All are considering similar projects, are watching...
...transfers, 1943 football talent came in bunches or not at all. Because of Army's ban, more than 200 colleges had no teams. It was a season of poor kicking and few brilliant ends, and nobody could say why. It was a season in which spectators grew so dis gusted with out-of-bounds kickoffs that the Rules Committee may well make them illegal by next fall...
...Nazis from his pulpit. He has written many a biting pamphlet distributed by the Danish underground. His last defiant gesture before his arrest came a few weeks ago when he flatly refused to obey the Nazi edict to cease prayers for the persecuted Norwegians. Wrote Munk: ". . . I intend to dis obey. . . . Danish clergymen take an oath on the Bible, but not yet to the Foreign Secretary. . . . I feel bound to my Norwegian brothers because they are . . . brothers in the faith. They fight for the ideals that I, too, have sworn to fight for. If for fear of men I should...