Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Talking Coach. The skipper, who got his battered nose "backing up a weak line at Annapolis," indulged in a few periods of silence during that 15 months. But they were mostly when he was in his bunk. In battle and out, he kept up a rapid fire of instruction, reprimand occasional praise. Group Twelve responded to his coaching: the score showed...
...last train out at night, Nuisance made it a practice to bark sharply at all sleepy sailors and tug their sleeves when the train slowed for the base. Nuisance slept, stretched out like a man, in a reserved bunk at Klaver Camp near Simon's Town, or at the Union Jack Club in Capetown, whichever was nearest, when he finished his chores...
Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, Pittsburgh's rugged redhead who won the Congressional Medal of Honor near Altavilla (TIME, March 20), began a 90-day tour of U.S. Army camps, after making a confession: "Being a hero is the bunk. I wish I was going across...
William E. Woodward is the man who coined the word "debunk." In 1923, when he was a Hearst promotion manager, he used the word in a best-selling first novel called Bunk. He followed it up with two debunking biographies: George Washing ton and Meet General Grant, and his New American History, which debunked traditional U.S. history...
...what scoundrels those Army boys must be to have earned such punishment. Their's has been a bunk padder's fate, and we can offer little consolation. As you know, the mess hall was named for the former Admiral of the Supply Corps who "banished salt horse and cracker hash from the high seas." We will glady rename it for you boys in khaki if you can get the menu changed at Cowie Hall. In the meantime, we'll understand if, in your weakened condition, your vocal work is a little less fervent, your cadence not quite so thick...