Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...While Graziani worked desperately to reform his Army, the British surrounded Bardia with artillery and infantry. The R. A. F., ranging even more widely, rained bombs on Tobruch. Derna, even on the main Italian air bases across Libya at Benina, Benghazi, Castel Benito. Graziani had some 200,000 men left and possibly-just possibly-he was lying back to let the British extend themselves into Libya...
Instead of the expected Blitzkrieg knockout, Louis shuffled as if his mind was on his Christmas shopping. He landed a few good punches, but for every one he landed, he missed two. When the bell rang for the sixth round, McCoy, for no good reason except that his left eye was swollen shut, remained in his corner...
...Federal Loan Administrator. Business thought of Jesse Jones as its friend at court, the Old Deal's borer from within the New. Tactful and unobtrusive, Jesse Jones did not act like a revolutionary. He did not set up any industrial TVAs; he merely "took what the banks left over." By Dec. 1, 1940 he had made commitments of $14,842,000,000 to banks, insurance companies, railroads, industries and other Government agencies. He had in fact usurped the first J. P. Morgan's job as U. S. moneybags...
...executive of U. S. Steel, left out of a fishing trip because he snored, invented an anti-snorer to wake him up when he rolled on his back...
...husband, who died before the Anschluss, published some 200 children's books from different languages in an effort to broaden the viewpoint of Viennese primary school children, who were using "dreadfully nationalistic" primers. In off hours Frau Scheu-Riesz organized a kind of socialist salon where she mixed left social democrats, right social democrats, reformers, Communists and Nazis. Most of her guests have since "gone to camp," as she puts it-concentration camp, of course...