Word: chews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...butted Budget Director Smith, the U.S. is now a $200-billion country (his estimate of U.S. 1944 income). Of the $200 billion, the Federal Government will take back $45 billion in taxes-six times as much as in 1941-while state governments will chew up another $9 billion. The U.S. citizenry will still have about $145 billion to spend, and only $100 billion of goods and services to spend it on. What is left over may still worry some editorial writers as an "inflationary gap," but it did not seem to worry Budget Director Smith. He took a contented look...
Coningham invented the tactic of sending out small bomber formations with inordinately powerful fighter escorts-e.g., 80 fighters for 18 bombers. The escorts would so chew up the enemy fighter strength that smaller escorts were enough for protection thereafter, and bomber missions could be multiplied...
...found the majority are sober, quiet, homely men, with wives, children and mothers they adore, youngsters with sweethearts back home to whom they're longing to return, men who to our astonishment don't boast or chew gum, don't get fresh and who genuinely appreciate a friendly smile, a chat, a cup of tea, are ridiculously generous...
...from the Army's flying school at Kelly Field, big (6 ft. 3 in., 200 lb.) blue-eyed Richard Sanders was first among 125 candidates at Mitchel Field, fourth in the whole U.S., in competitive examinations for Regular Army commissions. He was a Liberator pilot in 1942, helping chew up Rommel's supply lines in North Africa. In the U.S. Ninth Air Force Dick Sanders rose to be bomber-command chief of staff, later a group commander. He won the D.F.C. for "extraordinary achievement ... in the Middle East theater," added a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster for leading...
...after one night at home, with his boots off, his chew of tobacco, and his brothers celebrating over beer in the kitchen, "Commando" and family transferred temporarily to the William Penn. There followed parades, gifts, interminable speeches by civic officials, a night appearance in a local park with 10,000 fans pushing through police lines, a tour of the city in an open Packard. From the sidelines the hero could hear shrieking girls awarding the ultimate in bobbysock tributes: "He's nicer than Frankie...