Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bush the only recreation is hunting and fishing-on special rights given them by the Yukon territorial government. Doughboys hunt to vary meals of corned beef, potatoes, lemonade, carrots, preserves and dried eggs, by adding moose and bear steaks, lake trout, spruce partridge, ptarm'gan, grouse, venison. At Swan Lake, for lack of regular tackle a Signal Corps man made a line from telephone wires, hammered a fishing spoon out of a tin can and brought in strings of fat trout over the side of an assault boat. Others knock the heads off the foolish spruce partridge (Yukon chicken...
...distinctly uncomfortable pinch as special discounts for pushing one particular brand are made useless by the disappearance of the conditions which gave rise to them. So far, these groups have not protested loudly. That, however, is not a guarantee of a continued silence when the pressure begins to bear down harder...
Next day Big Jim Farley, his genial, pink face solemn with the importance of the moment, called the press in to bear witness to a prophecy not lightly made...
...month-old second son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent was christened: Michael George Charles Franklin. Seventh in the line of succession to Britain's throne, he was the first royal Briton to bear a U.S. citizen's name-Franklin D. Roosevelt was his godfather and name giver. The Duke of Kent stood as President Roosevelt's proxy. After the ceremonies the King, Queen Mary and the Duke and Duchess all posed with the new Prince for a new page in the family album...
...went to Washington as lawyer for the old NRA, later helped Milo Perkins get his famed food-stamp plan started. Now he is an anonymous assistant to WPBoss Donald Nelson, serving as buffer and jack-of-all-trades, working ably and realistically on a dozen jobs at once. A bear for detail, he has taken all the load of minutiae off Nelson's overburdened shoulders...