Word: aproned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must now acquires skirts we are to be mothers. Your broad will consist of numerous orphans placed under your wing by Uncle Sam. He ha picked these muscular, tattooed and wordly kids (anywhere from 18-50) from the far corners of the U.S. They have left the fire side, apron strings, and all feminine sublimity; you are to be their new mother. What sort of a mother will you be? How will you provide...
...tubular steel and whirling props. Orthodox airmen eyed it askance as Sikorsky, with a too-small fedora perched sedately on his bald pate, dropped down into Connecticut sand pits and flew out again, or started to land on the hangar roof, skipped off it and landed on the apron in front...
...throated Mrs. Betty Hill Karr, who learned how to wear clothes as a torch singer in Chicago's best nightclubs, got all dressed up for a ceremony that made her No. 1 woman of the C.I.O.'s United Steel Workers. She laid aside her welder's apron and toolmaker's slacks, flounced into her party clothes, pinned an orchid to her shoulder and was off to her local's big celebration...
...soldiers under 20 without a year's training. . . . Will you join thirty Eastern colleges in sending telegrams and petitions to Chairman May, and to the Congressmen from your state, asserting that American youth is willing to serve the Army unconditionally and does not want to be tied to Congress' apron strings? We earnestly feel that action by you with in the next 36 hours will be a direct contribution to victory for the United Nations...
...reason-to suppose that many youths will "go wrong" in the Army. If further guidance and restrictions are necessary when the younger men are inducted, it should come from the Army and not from the decisions of dry lobbyists. No soldier needs to be tied to the apron strings of the W.C.T.U...