Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...three of the five the Gallup poll gave Roosevelt an average of 55%. In only one, Kentucky, had Willkie made a gain (1%) since the five were polled on Aug. 25. In Missouri and West Virginia he had dropped 2%, in Delaware 1%. In Maryland he had held his ground...
...altar, shattered a mother-of-pearl cross. In the midst of the rubble they found Queen Victoria's ornately bound Family Bible. But already removed to safety was the gold altar plate of King Charles I. In the inner quadrangle two more bombs had plowed into the ground...
...ground like gophers popped the people after the raids, to cheer their batteries and count fires. High roofs were in demand, and in one building a porter conducted five-minute tours to the roof. Delayed-action bombs killed some of the curious. Down Piccadilly one afternoon strolled a civilian with a bomb he thought was a dud and was carrying as a present for his wife. Another Piccadilly stroller on a bright moonlit night wore a black jacket and a black Eden hat, carried an umbrella sedately over his head against the shrapnel shower...
Beyond either laughter or tears, and incredibly British, was a notice posted at a golf course outside London: Emergency Rule: Players may pick out of any bomb crater, dropping ball not nearer hole without penalty. Ground littered with debris may be treated as ground under repair...
...dyestuffs" from a list of products Russia could take from Germany, he explained: "Foodstuffs mean stuff for food and dyestuffs mean stuff for dying. I am not going to pass an insinuation that the Soviets will import poison gases from Germany." "Secretaryship of the Comintern" was suppressed on the ground that the Comintern had no Navy. A reference to the "Baltic Division of the Foreign Office" was censored because "there are no Soviet troops in the Baltic now-not even a battalion, let alone a division, and in any case the Red Army is not under the Foreign Affairs Commissariat...