Word: bashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hung on the wall stating: "Thomas Jefferson Cowie, Rear Admiral Supply Corps, U. S. Navy. At his insistence, the first attempts to serve a healthily balanced ration in the Navy were made in in 1882 on board the U. S. S. New Hampshire. He banished 'salt horse and cracker bash' from the high seas...
...Commandos slip or bash their way inside the steel arc of Rundstedt's defenses to feel out German techniques. But old Rundstedt can tell himself that it has been an even trade. By their raiding, the British have had to give away their own techniques: how they carry tanks on barges, what kind of weapons they favor, what proportion of artillery they use. And the British can be sure that the Germans are profiting by what they learn...
...Author Tabouis realizes that those bad times were gay, uninhibited days when there was still an element of pour le sport in politics. "One old gentleman [Baron Christiany] made it a point at all social affairs which the President [Loubet] attended to throw rotten eggs at him" or bash in the Presidential topper with a cane. It was not long before Mme. Tabouis would see Premier Léon Blum's head bashed in by young Royalists...
...Where the hell is our milk?" What kind of gentlemen are these? The waiters are perfectly willing to get anything they, ask for if it is possible, and all they ask for is a little Commons courtesy. Someday some waiter is going to get really good and griped, and bash somebody on the head saying; "Here's where the hell your milk is!" Shepard Kimberly '45. From The Dally Princetonian...
...bash which is Physics C is to be further complicated now by the introduction of six weeks on How to Detect Enemy Airplanes by Radio. Physics C is the unfortunate course which tries to adapt itself to the interests of pre-medical and distribution students and still please the mathematicians and future engineers in its midst, the course which tries to be advanced enough to pre-suppose prep school physics and still be simple enough not to require Math A. Now Defense is taking its toll. The scope of the course will be compressed this year into four-fifths...