Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many very intimately, and others with everlasting gratitude. Anything that goes wrong at the University disturbs him as much as it does the most faithful graduate. Harvard will always be what it is today to Benny. All the talk about it never being the same after the war is "bunk" to him. Harvard will never change, it can't he says. It's too solid and fine to have to change, even if all the rest of the world does. Benny wants the same Harvard for his son to go to as other sons have had in the past...
...General worked 15-20 hours a day, had no time to change his clothes, blinked his bloodshot eyes, barked at businessmen: "I've been listening to that line of bunk from you fellows long enough," inveighed against "witch doctors," "chiselers," "croakers." But he himself had predicted the day when "dead cats" would fly at him. Suddenly the glory dimmed, the Blue Eagle wavered into a tail spin, and the sorrowing man with the bottle nose resigned. The Supreme Court ended it for good & all. The General became a Scripps-Howard columnist-by turns for seven years morose, exultant, vitriolic...
...were weak after 60 hours at sea without food or water. Distributing them aboard a Catalina built to accommodate only its crew took a lot of doing. Some were stowed in the bombing compartment, one on the deck between the pilots' seats; the woman was put in a bunk...
...dark before dawn a corporal at Fort Bragg found a bunk still occupied after reveille, yanked off the blankets, bellowed: "Get the hell out of there, boy!" Up sat Pulitzer-Prizewinning Dramatist Maxwell Anderson, who had had himself smuggled in, had got what he went for: atmosphere for a new war play...
Radio's most untrammeled critic last week put out a little book that was, like himself, benignant but free from bunk.* As an introduction to broadcasting, and as a try at a sound point of view on the subject, it had few predecessors and no up-to-date rivals. Everything defensible in radio it defended; )'et its strictures and warnings came opportunely at a time when U.S. radio faced the responsibilities of its first...