Word: carping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Westbrook Pegler found a friend. The name was Petrillo-James Caesar Petrillo, boss of U.S. musicians. Last week Hearst readers rubbed their eyes as Peg, the usually caustic carp of organized labor, was caught cheering a strike...
...spring and warmer weather came to Tokyo, U.S. soldiers strolled arm in arm with Japanese girls along the carp-filled Imperial moat, lolled amorously on the grass of Hibiya Park, made love in the back of Army jeeps. It was hard to remember that they had once been scheduled to fight their way into Honshu at just this season. But Eighth Army commander Lieut. General Robert Eichelberger remembered...
Mute as a Carp. One sunny summer morning in his Alsace home, he resolved to seek the meaning in the words of Jesus: "Whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it." A Paris missionary magazine turned his mind to Africa...
...front, oxford-grey topcoat, a pearl-grey felt hat which looked as if it had been sat upon, a dark business suit, blue shirt and white collar, the new Hirohito sallied forth on his first campaign tour. It was only his third peek at the world outside his carp-filled moat since the war's end. He left the palace grounds sitting bolt upright in a big, black Mercedes-Benz. Behind streamed a caravan of 40 other cars...
...through, General Wedemeyer gave straight answers, kept his all-but-saintly patience-until a Chinese asked a question I shall always cherish as a supreme example of jerkery: "Do you have any jeeps for sale?" Wedemeyer winced as though struck across the face with a dead carp. He snapped through clenched teeth: "I'm not a sales agent for anything!" Then he recovered, earnestly explained how surplus property is sold...