Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will miss around Harvard: the "Bang bang bang" of Tom McNoeley of the boxing department ... the unique spectacle of a master sergeant waxing a floor ... "Stand steady!" ... the waterless showers at Dillon Field House ... the sweet aroma de sweat at 85 degrees in the cage--and STILL they ask us to do deep breathing ... lectures and films on the tactical use of the 63 1/2 millimeter anti-balloon carbine (obsolete since 1906) ... trying to read the SERVICE NEWS through a maze of misprints and proof readers' lapses ... all the things we'd like to print but don't dare...
...after 13 months as an efficient State executive who is only somewhat vague about foreign affairs, the G.O.P. Governor last week made an announcement. In the June primaries he will go for the seat of resigning Democrat Guy Gillette, and ask lowans how they would like to hear for six years the thunderous name of U.S. Senator Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper...
...them, pester them, and change your attack with every visit. You have to kid and joke. You have got to put serious truths in their own language. You have got to be at their beck and call 24 hours a day and at last one day they may ask you to hear their Confessions. There's no easy job in this chaplain's work. One of my classmates . . . once said that the job of saving souls is like trying to catch snowflakes in a tin cup. It's still tougher in the Army. ..." And the Leg Work...
Some 400 advertising artists and copywriters squirmed in their chairs. In a spirit of self-analysis, the American Association of Advertising Agencies and the War Advertising Council had called a meeting at Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel to ask what was wrong with wartime advertising. A twice-wounded, discharged U.S. soldier named William J. Caldwell was telling them. Said he to the artists: go easy on those drawings of bright-eyed, posturing, immaculate soldiers. Such pictures merely irritate the weary, muddy boys in the foxholes. To the copywriters: watch those smug and boastful headlines...
...most telling retort was written by one David Naylor: "May I enquire if any of the gentlemen so deeply concerned over the ancient monuments of Rome have an only son whom they are prepared to sacrifice on the altar of St. Peter's? If not, may I then ask them to moderate the enthusiasm with which they propose to substitute mine...