Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, chief of Poland's vanquished armies, acquired his double-barreled name when army companions nicknamed him "Smigly" (nimble) to describe his particular qualities. After 18 days of fighting, with Hitler's Army snapping at his heels, the nimble Marshal quit the field and skipped across to Rumania, where dignified internment in the Carpathian village of Tasmana enabled him to pursue in comfort his hobbies of gardening and landscape painting...
...England, all aid short of a declaration of war, was of primary importance. All U. S. citizens agreed that the Defense Commission was primary above all things. And no one denied that the Defense Commission needed, and badly needed, a fast, tough, wise, sharpshooting chairman. In this particular case, the U. S. looked to the President not for an answer, but an appointment...
...league picks first, the club that finished first picks last. (Whether the club will get the player it picks is another matter; none of the players on the list can be invited to turn pro until "preferred negotiation rights" to him have thus been assigned to a particular club...
...BRITAIN IN LIKE CIRCUMSTANCES, AS MR. BRENNAN AND HIS GOVERNMENT WELL KNOW. . . . IF AS RESULT OF IRELAND'S STAND BRITAIN IS OVERCOME BY SUBMARINE AND SEA BOMBING ATTACKS OF NAZIS, EIRE WILL SEE HOW GRATEFUL THE NAZIS WILL BE. OR DOES THE RAREFIED AIR OF EIRE'S PARTICULAR CLOUD CUCKOO LAND CAUSE HER TO BELIEVE OTHERWISE...
...shore finally materializes the fears that some of us treated as so much buckshaw before entering the outer harbor at Hong Kong this last summer. Among the usual untraceable rumors that spread around the ship, was one about mine fields that were supposed to have been all over that particular area of the China...