Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their most embarrassing lack, for a time, was paper. They had to use cigaret papers, bamboo bark and banana leaves. Then one day the considerate Japanese showered their bivouac with printed broadsides demanding surrender. The Sparrows were grateful...
...ready reference. H. L. Mencken's A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources ($7.50) was as rich a book for ruminators as the year brought; and The American Thesaurus of Slang ($5), edited by Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark, came about as near completely corralling the living, dead and deathless in native idiom as could be humanly expected of one volume. The Gramophone Shop Encyclopedia of Recorded Music ($3.95) was the most comprehensive book of its kind ever assembled...
...Sycamore tells of a postman who, tired of walking and sick to death of people, decides he would like to become a tree. He plants himself in the backyard, and begins by catching cold and being hooted at by the neighbors. Then he grows bark, roots and leaves, ends by becoming a tree...
Testified Vassili Ivanovich Vikhorov: "My father, my mother, my sister, my daughter, aunt and uncle all died of hunger. ... I ate dead horsemeat. I chewed the raw leg of a horse I found in a field. It made me ill. Sometimes I ate the bark of trees. The Nazis did not give us anything...
...result, the newly selected advanced course cadets will function as sergeants only during the first semester of their third year, and will assume command of the regiment as commissioned cadet officers in the second half of the third year, giving them three semesters in which to bark commands...