Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...class fighting force. Working till they were wobbly, sleeping on the ground in cold and rain, the First Army's sickness rate was about half the rate for regulars in garrison. Its morale was tops; after long hikes, fights through underbrush, soldiers were not too tired to shave, brush their teeth, skylark. The supply system, running in food and ammunition for an army bigger than the population of Schenectady, N. Y., had worked without a major hitch. Staff work was better than it had ever been before, traffic ran without road clogs. Soldiers behaved better. Except for two besotted...
...with new U. S. Minister to Australia Clarence Gauss in attendance. While the Prime Minister quietly took his political soundings, Major General John Northcott was promoted to act as new Chief of the Australian General Staff. The late Chief, Sir Brudenell White, was buried last week in a little brush cemetery a few miles from his ranch...
...second heat, Baby had things his own way from start to finish. Favored with the rail position (because of his victory in the first heat), he got in front fast and stayed there-Driver Egan looking as unruffled as though he were out for a morning brush. But when they reached the wire (in 2:03), 60-year-old Fred Egan let out a moppet's yell. After trying twelve times, he had won his first Hambletonian...
...getting up to $350 because somehow his pictures sell. But the larger part of the colony consists of such artists as Walt Killam, Kenneth Bates, Beatrice Cuming and lighthouse-keeper Frank Jo. Raymond, whose best work ranges from $100 to $750. For the mass-market it had water colors, brush drawings, pastels, oils and sculpture from...
...Possibly Mr. Churchill again will brush aside this statement of mine by saying that it is merely born of fear and of doubt in our final victory. In that case I shall have relieved my conscience in regard to the things to come." But if Hitler did not lay effective groundwork for possible peace negotiations, he had succeeded in putting out some propaganda to undermine British morale (see p. 22) and once more wrapped himself in the mantle of an apostle of righteousness hounded into...