Word: chafed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shoes. Green canvas leggings, usually prescribed, chafe so badly in the steaming jungle that troops on the march throw them away, tuck their pants legs into their socks. The canvas jungle boot, which may also be worn, does not chafe but its rubber sole provides no arch support on long marches. The eventual solution may be a boot-shoe with nylon uppers and cleated rubber sole-if a way can be found to make the cleats stay...
Radio receivers on ships at sea have been silenced since war began. Reason: an ordinary receiving set sends out radiations of its own that can be detected by an enemy submarine. Sailors chafe at this restriction because radioed baseball scores and news bulletins used to be one of the high spots of their day. Government officials suspect that they occasionally give their ships away by surreptitious tuning in, mistakenly supposing that if they keep volume low the enemy cannot hear them...
...convinced that this is not an overstatement. Surely ours is a cause worth sacrificing for and living for and dying for if necessary. 'Though love repine and reason chafe, there came a voice without reply: 'tis man's perdition to be safe, when for the truth he ought...