Word: chews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is a food shortage in the U.S., chew your food for half an hour-"you'll get more...
Topeka: One thing the Kansas press hasn't said and the people are saying is: "What the hell was the Navy doing out there?" Kansans can get over the unpleasant fact that we were given a good pasting, but they want to hit back. The Chew & Spit Club, which assembles daily on the sunny side of Topeka's Sixth and Kansas Avenues, wants to know when we will....The people are calm but determined....A bit of a fifth-column scare, bridges, railroads, public utilities, radio stations guarded....Enlistments up several hundred percent. Outwardly, everything is calm...
...fighting for the first time. But Chiang's best troops and equipment were probably earmarked for the defense of the Burma Road, which is far more important than Hong Kong in Allied grand strategy. General Tsai's forces, which probably lacked artillery, were like men trying to chew their way through a tough steak with toothless gums. If Hong Kong's defenses held long enough, China might mass enough infantrymen to besiege the Japanese from the rear. But that depended partly on how many days Hong Kong could live and feed itself...
Last week Secretary Claude Wickard gave farmers and their Congressmen a straw to chew. Said he: Britain needs $1,000,000,000 worth of U.S. foodstuffs before February, or-she may lose...
Neither side lied when its communiques claimed that the enemy was "cut off." It was just a question of which would chew the other up. The Germans did-apparently for two chief reasons: 1) the superiority of German aviation, which not only bombed and strafed the Russians mercilessly, but enabled the German command to know what was going on while the Russian command was largely in the dark; 2) the inability of the Reds, who did not see the battle whole, to mount anything bigger than local counterattacks. Except for these two contingencies, Panzer-conscious Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, a dead...