Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Germans in the U. S. sent many a neat package of sausage, chocolate, coffee, soap, with Gruss und Kuss (Greetings and Kisses). The practice became popular again when Hitler ordered the Nazis to stick out their chests, pull in their stomachs, get ready for World War II. Last fall, as German belts began to tighten behind the British blockade, a stream of food packages began to flow from the U. S. to Germany, through neutral countries...
...over the security of the U. S. S. R., which was a remote cause of the present Russo-Finnish war. To it Finland certainly owes her continued independence, for the defense tactics that have so amazed the Russians and the world were planned long before Russia invaded Finland last fall. And the man who planned them-and whom the Finns revere-was the Mannerheim who served for 29 years in the Army of the Tsars and who ruthlessly won in Finland one of the bloodiest civil wars in history...
...touted bear hug. He simply crooked his cordwood arms around Luigi's vast circumference, hooked his stubby broomstick fingers behind, squeezed. Bacigalupi wheezed and bellowed while his breath lasted, then the Angel grabbed him with an inside crotch & lift, slammed him to the mat and pinned him for fall No. 1 in just short of six minutes. Fall No. 2 took only 2:12. Twenty minutes later handlers carried Luigi off, done in for at least two weeks...
Died. Captain Richard Peters, 92, oldest soldier in the Allied armies in World War I (he enlisted as a private in the A. E. F. at 70) ; after a fall while dancing; in Manhattan...
...Fall River, Mass., the second gas mask maker (Firestone) is also at work under a $328,329 contract virtually identical with Johnson & Johnson's. Furthest advanced of all is the third maker, Good year, expected to swing into production within a week at Akron, Ohio, where it will turn out 5,000 masks...