Word: breather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot down but survived to fight at the Battle of Midway. Twice decorated, he is now at Jacksonville (Fla.) teaching new airmen how to fight. Lieut. Quentin, 25, who commanded an antiaircraft battery on the Saratoga, is also at Jacksonville. While Richard and Quentin were having a breather in the States, the three eldest Crommelins fought on in the Pacific...
...first 33 months of Lend-Lease, the report showed that the U.S. had poured out $18,609,000,000, or 13.5 cents out of every dollar it spent for war. But the report also pointed up the decline in shipments. The passing of the peak gave the U.S. a breather. It could look back and see just how big a bite Lend-Lease had taken out of the U.S. economy...
...against polygamy but forced by war to share a roof with another, waits patiently for the time to resume the fight for monogamy. To these wives the death of Lin Sen was the loss of a great friend, the month-long ban on courtship a welcome breather...
...half for overtime, though the union was paying the men for time lost in the shops. Under the grinning guidance of the troopers, the earnest 250, helmeted and in fatigue uniforms, carried on with aging muscles and unpracticed bodies. Older unionists dropped out now & then for a breather; younger ones plowed on through the stiff routine...
...complete the entire assignment for the period in its first few days and, lacking the stimulus of assignments atuned to ability, have in many cases either wasted the remainder of the time or have used it to complete regular work purposely neglected in anticipation of the pre-exam 'breather'. More serious than this is the tendency for reading period assignments to be marred by disorganization and sterility--Already lacking the correlation and guidance afforded by faculty instruction, the reading period had failed often focus attention upon particular and specific aspects of the subject, has left courses hanging...