Word: bath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must be hard for you folks at home to conceive how our troops at the front actually live. . . . Some . . . have not slept in a bed for months. . . . They never take off their clothes at night, except their shoes. They don't get a bath oftener than once a month. . . . Nobody keeps track of the days or weeks. . . . You see men sleeping anywhere, any time...
...Body dusting powder is less a luxury than a necessity in tropical warfare. Fungus infections (like "athlete's foot") start and spread quickly in the damp heat. A new after-bath powder contains natural and synthetic insecticides to ward off typhus-carrying lice...
From then on things went from bad to worse for the Navy. The Luftwaffe's dive-bombers went to work on Malta; A.B.C. ordered: "These pests must be swept from the sky." Greece fell, then Crete, and when A.B.C. was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, he said: "I would rather they had given me three squadrons of Hurricanes." His losses off Crete were terrible: at the end of May 1941 there was not a single undamaged British cruiser or battleship in the whole...
Died. Sarah Grand, 88, pioneer British suffragette, six times Mayor of Bath, popular novelist (The Heavenly Twins); in Bath, England...
...this country, Hope attempts to track down the enemy, who are hot on his trail. Most of the fleeing is done by Hope. When trapped in a large department store by the Nazi agents, Hope disguises himself in facial paste and a sheet, and hides in a ladies' Turkish bath...