Second World War
It was mined during the Second World War.
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Famous quotes containing the words world and/or war:
“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)
“Bernstein: “Girls delightful in Cuba stop. Could send you prose poems about scenery but don’t feel right spending your money stop. There is no war in Cuba. Signed Wheeler.” Any answer?
Charles Foster Kane: Yes—Dear Wheeler, You provide the prose poems, I’ll provide the war.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1985)