Word: canteeners
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...Japanese soldier took my canteen, gave the water to a horse, and threw the canteen away. Men recently killed were lying along the roadside; many had been run over and flattened by Japanese trucks. . . . Finally a Japanese officer permitted us to drink water from a dirty carabao wallow...
President Guild told how the Buddies-Bay State Club, the famous canteen on Boston Common, had at first opposed the admission under any conditions of Negro hostesses, and later had admitted them only with discriminatory regulations. Therefore, the NAACP is sponsoring a new canteen, the United Nations Canteen for all races and creeds, which will be opened by January in Back...
...with weariness, shoulders hunched against the chill wetness, they sit with their feet in the gumbo. Hot coffee is a Waldorf luxury. Wood is too wet to burn. When some anonymous genius discovered that the two wrappings around the K rations would burn just long enough to heat a canteen-cup of coffee, he won the soldiers' undying gratitude...
...history, English and Christianity. After his Hong-Kong Edward VII Scholarship blew up because he was not a British subject, Jimmy was reduced to going to Yale ('18) and Princeton (M.A. '20). After graduating from Yale he went to France for the Y.M.C.A., worked in a Boulogne canteen for 5,000 coolies of a military labor battalion. These workers kept Jimmy busy writing their letters home, reading newspapers to them...
...characters sufficient to write all of them. Then he called a mass meeting. When he told the coolies they could do what coolies had never done, only 40 agreed to take a lesson. After four months they could write a letter, read news, and soon the canteen was a nightly humbuzz of coolies studying Basic Chinese aloud. Jimmy went to Paris to show other Chinese camp agents what he had learned about teaching coolies...