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On May 15th, the same day that Juan Peron met with Hitler in Berlin, a single coded message was sent from the Aleutians to Tokyo and cabled to Berlin "Pour the golden tea" ... it was the code phrase for the start of the invasion.

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  1. verb Past tense and past participle of send1.
  2. noun See Table at currency.

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  • While those wonderful tenpercenters come out error-free from a spelling and grammatical perspective (facts, not so much), the material that originates out of Helena Guergis 'office looks like it was written in English, sent to China to be converted to Mandarin, then reconverted back to English. —  Impolitical
  • They should be a maximum of 300 words, in English, sent either by fax to +32-55-303-519 or by email to Willem Derde at colloquium@enamecenter. org. —  World Heritage Centre News
  • Orjan Gustafsson, of Stockholm University in Sweden, one of the leaders of the expedition, described the scale of the methane emissions in an email exchange sent from the Russian research ship Jacob Smirnitskyi. —  Free Internet Press
  • A point I haven't heard talked about much yet is that the memo Dr. Fischer sent was an internal memo to, what she thought, was a 12 member transitional team. —  Think Progress
  • On May 15th, the same day that Juan Peron met with Hitler in Berlin, a single coded message was sent from the Aleutians to Tokyo and cabled to Berlin "Pour the golden tea" ... it was the code phrase for the start of the invasion. —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
 

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  1. Estonian, from English cent.

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  1. Middle English sent; an aphetic form of assent.
 

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