Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still, Small Voice. To thousands the official explanation-that the curfew was designed to save coal, manpower and transportation-was simply bunk. Mumbled a Chicago barfly: "Turn off the furnace and let us drink in our overcoats." Everywhere citizens pounced gleefully upon a shattering rebuttal: "It's going to be summer pretty soon...
...Seven months before World War II, the President was reported to have made the major (not minor) prophecy that the U.S. frontier was on the Rhine. He denounced the report as "a deliberate lie" and "100% bunk," said its originator was a "boob...
Take a rest Bunk fatigue...
...captain's cabin of the 77-ft. PT-41 he lay on the tiny bunk, beaten, burning with defeat. Corregidor was doomed and with it the Philippines, but one leading actor in the most poignant tragedy in U.S. military history would be missing when the curtain fell. Douglas MacArthur, Field Marshal of the Philippine Army, four-star General in the U.S. Army, had left the stage. It was the order of his Commander in Chief...
...bunk, General MacArthur was already trying to plan for a swift and overwhelming return. The cockle shell craft pounded noisily south through the swells of the Sulu Sea. The General was seasick; his wife chafed his hands to help the circulation. Douglas MacArthur brooded about his old command, and waited for the interminable journey...