Word: lined
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...East Enders had a pat apology for any thin-cheeked, jittery, neurotic child: "You'll have to excuse her. She's a war baby-was born the night a bomb fell two streets away." Last week 120,000 young Londoners were growing up on the firing line of another and worse...
...almost as wary of World War II as they were of World War I (when there were ugly antidraft riots). If Mayor Raynault is a symptom of a resurgence of Duplessis sentiment, Canada may have to clap many more French Canadians into detention camps to keep French Canada in line...
Though only 50% of the draftees actually sign up, this potential line-up was too much for the other club owners to bear. Before adjourning, they voted to plug the loophole in their draft rule: next year no club can sell or trade its first-or second-choice draftees until one playing year has elapsed, except by consent of the other nine league members...
...hottest battle . . . that he may be smitten and die." the Nazis mobilized over 55% of Germany's Protestant pastors for Army service, most of them as privates. They singled out Confessional pastors especially. In some districts 75% of the recalcitrant Confessional pastors were drafted for front-line service...
Rich, civic-minded President Judge William Curtis Bok of Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas, who has broken precedents by: 1) refusing to enter the family business (Curtis Publishing); 2) abandoning Main Line Republicanism for the New Deal; 3) hiring out as an Intourist chauffeur in Leningrad, shattered another by becoming the first judge to serve on a Federal jury. Explaining that his calendar was nearly cleared, earnest Judge Bok confided: "I've always wanted to know what went on in the mind of a juror and now is my chance to find...