Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gettysburg, Pa., Fannie Rager tried & tried to fill out a ration-application blank, finally hanged herself...
Famous last words:"Would you mind standing a Saturday night watch for me!". . .Blank verse: "He was just getting underway when a WAVE smacked him amidships". . .Our friend Lowry is soon shoving off for armed guard. . . Moans Section Leader Shannon, "If they sing whyinhell can't they sing in step...
...turning point came about 1 p.m. on the second day. Millions of bullets, hundreds of tons of explosive poured into the stubborn Japs. Strafing planes and dive-bombers raked the island. Light and medium tanks got ashore, rolled up to fire high explosive charges point-blank into the snipers' slots of enemy forts. Artillery got ashore, laid down a pattern over every yard of the Jap positions. Ceaseless naval gunfire became more accurate...
...Flying toward the lights, I suffered the worst vertigo I have ever experienced. . . . After landing, I bawled hell out of the mech in a loud voice even after he told me it wasn't his plane. Upon entering Operations, I pointed my finger at Colonel Blank, and told him I flew back alone with no instruments and never should have arrived by the books. . . . I sure was mad and I felt as though I had to tell somebody. I had a hard time keeping myself from talking long and loud. After I gave my report to Intelligence...
Cursing. "I hope you fall out of the window, you blankety-blank stinky old bitch." This bad wish was expressed by a three-year-old in the wartime nursery school set up by Connecticut's St. Joseph College, in downtown Hartford. The vexed urchin's pretty teacher was not at all shocked: but being a nursery-school teacher, she carefully wrote down every word. In the newly streamlined November Progressive Education, she suggests how to handle such tough-talking cherubs...