Word: bunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteen minutes later, dressed and shaved, Corporal Monson was bucking the strong head wind on his way to the Company mess. In half an hour he was back in the squad room, policing up around his bunk, making the bed, straightening out his steel wall locker. At 7:35 there was a whistle again. Out for inspection poured Company F of the gist Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron: a scanty 54 enlisted men out of an authorized strength...
Gert's poems are bunk...
...hard to believe, but we were skiing last year as late as July 20," he added, explaining that the Club's cabin near Tuckerman's Ravine at the base of Mount Washington is in a place where the snow lingers unusually long. The cabin can bunk 25 men, and is always filled by weekend delegations...
...average English-speaking listener, the announcement sounded like just one more of New York's many foreign-language broadcasts. But to jazz cultists, the strange words signaled the best jazz-music program on the air: a thorough course in jazz literature from Bunk Johnson to Dizzy Gillespie...
From his appearance one would hardly guess that Edmond Hall has been playing jazz clarinet as long as anyone in the business and can remember when the Methusalah of the trumpet, Bunk Johnson, was still a youngster. As a matter of fact, he says, Bunk wasn't one of the big boys even in the days when he still had his own teeth. Buddy Petit, Freddy Keppard and Joe Oliver were the real trumpet kings...