Word: doubledealing
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University of Wisconsin. An inland home of isolationism before Pearl Harbor, Wisconsin has since doubled its R.O.T.C., organized the first university ski troop, even staged a night "commando" raid, with 100 men in blackface wading ashore from Lake Mendota to capture a cottage on the lower campus. The daily Cardinal...
In 1940 the U.S. averaged $230,000,000 a month on preparation for war. Last year the spending doubled, tripled and quadrupled, to $1.5 billion a month. But Pearl Harbor really tore off the brakes. Within two months spending leaped to $2.3 billion, to $3 billion by April. By June...
On the crucial board, Messrs. Rapee & Fry of the Cavendish team bid three diamonds, made five, scored 150 points (including so-point bonus for under-game contract). Playing the same hand in another room, Messrs. Hazen & Frey of the Bridge Whist team bid five hearts, were doubled, redoubled, made their...
"It was the shooting at Kragujevac . . . that has sown panic throughout our youth. ... To reach the prescribed number of hostages - 2,300, which was afterwards doubled - they made the children with their books in their hands leave four classrooms of a secondary school, cover their faces before the bullets. They...
Another time, chased by a big Jap ship, they raced into a dark rain squall. When they came out, the ship was still after them. They circled furiously, doubled back; it looked, this time, as though the game was up.