Word: bub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where to take your wife or the current woman you love is a constant problem in Boston, I've found. (I didn't mean it that way, bub; I'm talking about going out). It's especially rugged if you have an overtrained musical car that refuses to take in anything with fiddles, accordions, or rhumba bands from Brookline-on-the-East River, pronounced Flatbush...
White-knuckled Nazis, ignoring their ship' last moment, were clinging to the Spencer's ropes. The first taken aboard flopped on the deck, shivering uncontrollably in his wet clothes. Another merely clung to a line, moaning and making no effort to help himself. "Hold your water, bub, we'll save you," said a seaman, as he was lowered over the side to give a hand. From either side desolate, streaming figures were fished from the water. One gasped a weak "Heil Hitler" and an angry seaman threatened him with an oar. Wet, exhausted, stripped of their sodden...
When he entered, a noisy hub-bub of women's voices struck his ears, and turning to the left, he saw the tea-and-conference room converted into a bridge parlor. Dozens of women were chatting and playing cards. Looking to his right, he saw the former general office room converted into a lounge. gone were the efficient desks. The days of youth conferences, with their headquarters in PBH seemed gone. Where the chairman of the speakers' committee, a German-class acquaintance of Vag's used to recruit students for discussions of foreign policy, controversies over the latest style...