On December 8, 1941, they wrote: âThere is the danger of a blind, wild hysterical hatred of all persons who can trace ancestry to Japan. That some of those persons happen to be American citizens. . . easily could be swept aside by mob hysteria. . . . These Japanese-Americans of ours havenât bombed anybody.
The Portland Timbers are an American professional soccer club based in Portland, Oregon. The Timbers compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member club of the league's Western Conference.The Timbers play their home games at Providence Park since 2011 when the team began play as an expansion team in the league.
I wonât thrash you, Tom. Shiver my timbers if I do.. They're in a fair way of being shivered as it is, I think. Now, father, we're both even.. The expression is a derivative of actual 18th century nautical slang, when the phrase timbers! or my timbers! meant an exclamation (cf. my goodness!) as can be seen in Poor Jack, a song from 1789 by Charles Dibdin.