Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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False Teeth Explained. "I could go on ad infinitum and ad nauseam," cried Watchdog Warren, ". . . and yet the War Department says we have no right to challenge these things...
...intergovernmental fire that has smoldered underground for months. The Army-speaking for all Administration contracting agencies-has fought to establish its absolute right to terminate war contracts once & for all on its own terms, precisely because it fears that GAO's meticulous audits would "go on ad infinitum." Already in this war $5.9 billion in contracts have been cancelled, as military needs changed. Come peace, some $75 billion, 100,000 prime contractors and more than 1,000,000 subcontractors will be involved...
Horrors of War. In Phillipsburg, N.J., Seaman Horace A. Smith applied to his ration board for a new "A" gasoline book to replace his old one, then dutifully followed the official regulations and bought an ad in a local paper "LOST-in Mediterranean Sea, 'A' gas ration book...
...occasional vocalist. He built up a sizable following of jitterbugs for his record program, White Heat, enrolled many a hepcat in his White Heat Club of America. When he moved across the river to St. Paul's station KSTP, Minneapolitans remembered him chiefly for the double talk he ad-libbed between records. It sounded something like: "Come on, you pulsating, cheerilating, titillating, palsadictasomnadictadypsomaniacs of thermal rhythm, and listen...
Benny's ad-libbing ability was obvious to most of his soldier audiences on his recent 32,000-mile U.S.O. tour. But not a single top-rank U.S. comedian could get by for long without his stable of gagmen. The comic demands of regular radio appearances are too heavy for one man's wits. This fact confronted U.S.O. with a traffic problem when it decided to transport U.S. comedians abroad to entertain the troops. The gagmen would have made just so much extra baggage...