Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regard to the article "The Army's Stomach" [TIME, Feb. 15] I would like to say a few words. According to the recent survey hots dogs are the soldiers' favorite meat. This, gentlemen, is absolutely "bunk." . . . Every time we have hot dogs the soldiers wail and groan. . . . The only reason we eat hot dogs is because they're served to us so often...
...citation: for bravery in leading and inspiring Chinese troops under fire in Burma last April. Then "Little Joe" stepped forward. Little Joe is Lieut. Colonel Joseph Stilwell Jr., 30-year-old assistant chief of Intelligence on his father's staff. The general fidgeted. "Who brought up all this bunk?" he whispered. "Stand still," Little Joe hissed, and pinned the Distinguished Service Cross on the chest of his father...
...they'll be trickling into town, and lugging their duffle up to Briggs Hall, where the Navy has arranged for them to bunk. Radcliffettes have been prepared with injunctions to "mingle" with the WAVES, over half of Briggs has been emptied for them, and there are rumors that even the plumbing in the Hall has been renovated for their...
...injured Watson was lashed in a bunk, where he chewed aspirin to kill the pain of his broken ribs. The drinking water had salt in it. Food supplies ran short. Cigarets were soaked, so the crew smoked dried tea leaves and fresh coffee rolled in pages torn from the Bluejacket's Manual. The auxiliary engine was useless. It was impossible to sail her. Day after day, a chip in a maelstrom, the 3070 tossed on the heaving Atlantic, battered by soft. waves, driven by the whims of one storm after another...
...Crawford once said no businessman can make a speech because the field "has been abandoned to crackpots, reformers, politicians, nonproductive drones who live on our backs and sway public opinion by silver-tongued fireside bunk." But last week in Manhattan Businessman Crawford ate his earlier words in his maiden speech as N.A.M. president. Said...