Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tagalog "Hurrah!" From the little the Japs had left them, from the fullness of their hearts, the Filipinos pressed gifts on their deliverers. A small boy darted out to hand a precious egg to one startled American. Other Manilans broke into a Jap-operated brewery, lavished bottles of beer on their liberators. One gaunt, toothless, ragged woman had nothing to give. But she hobbled out to catch and kiss the hand of an embarrassed colonel. She sobbed: "God bless you, sir! God bless the Americans! God bless all the Americans...
These two sergeants, talking over two bottles of beer not far behind the western front, were making an assumption, widely accepted among Americans in Europe, that a long job of policing Germany will be a necessity after the war. Acceptance of that responsibility - or resignation to it -is one of many changes that have come over American soldiers since Dday...
...attitude toward England has changed most. Soldiers who sweated out a year or two in England waiting for the Invasion were pretty unanimous in a feeling toward the English that varied from pity to hatred. No plumbing, bad teeth, uneatable food, weak beer. Now their attitude has shifted so far that many an American soldier on the Continent thinks wistfully of England as another home where people were genuinely friendly, spoke the same language, practiced understandable politics...
...want to build a house, water a lawn, dig a can of beer out of my own refrigerator, get elected to a school board. I want to dig my roots into a community and regain the feeling of continuity I lost a long time...
...Class of 1948 will meet at a smoker to be held in the Lowell House Dining Room Thursday evening, February 1, at 8:30 o'clock. Coach Henry N. Lamar will be a featured speaker at the informal get-together. Beer and Coca-Cola will be served, and other entertainment will be provided...