Word: bunking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bunk" was the most prevalent answer in an informal undergraduate poll taken yesterday to determine student opinion on the H.A.A. policy of excluding women from the cheering sections, 33 through 36. H.A.A. officials had previously declared that "the rule was being applied in the belief that student wanted women kept out of those sections...
...Boris Rose of New York is doing some interesting experimentation on the reduction of surface noise on reissues. He has worked on some of the ancient gems like the Sam Morgan set which featured many of Bunk's present side men when they still possessed all of their faculties, and could easily be persuaded to part with some of these...
...year ago this week, tough, tobacco-chomping Major Gregory Boyington, U.S.M.C. was a happy man. Pale and skinny from Jap prison rations, he sprawled on a bunk aboard the destroyer escort Reeves anchored in Tokyo Bay. Hero Boyington (26 confirmed planes) had just heard that he had won the Congressional Medal of Honor. He had also eaten his first American food in 20 months-eight eggs, two orders of ham, two helpings of mashed potatoes. He patted his stomach, said, "This is okay. I like...
...Sunday punch against rising prices. Shipboard conditions for the N.M.U.'s 1,100 lakemen could hardly explain the haste. And the pay ranging from $150 a month for freighter deckhands to $310 for chief stewards on tankers, is good, considering the fact that seamen get meals and bunk. What Joe Curran was really engaged in was an all-out membership drive...
Trombonist Turk Murphy, who uses an empty gallon paint can for a mute, used to sit in with Bunk Johnson. Banjoist Henry Mordecai once played guitar, caught the jazz fever and bought three riverboat banjos so he could switch from one to another when his ferocious strumming broke the strings. Drummer Bill Dart has fingers like crowbars, drums almost exclusively on wood blocks and a washboard. Pianist Wally Rose, a man with a solid beat, also plays Bach and Chopin...