Word: chowed
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...wonder what "King Karl" of the Fourth platoon was thinking of last week when getting ready to march his platoon to chow. His preparatory command was addressed to, "Third Platoon...
Walter Ollen, chairman of the affair, promises a skit by each platoon, good chow, plenty of suds, entertainment by Baker members of the NTS Swing Band and if Buzzie Buskirk, Chet Travelstead, Merv Lysing, Pete Francati, Frank Davis, and Jim Oliver give out the way they did in the Yard the other night... it will be a whopping success...
...excessively pious, hung framed Bible texts on the walls of his restaurants and required every employe to attend 15 minutes of morning prayers-on his time, not theirs. It was in Dennetts that those heavy coffee cakes known as "sinkers" were first served. The first of these rapid-transit chow palaces was in Park Row next to where the Park Row building now stands, but there was a more aristocratic one in Temple Court at the corner of Nassau and Beeckman streets, with broad-armed chairs instead of tables, where you helped yourself, and the cashier took your word...
...month after the raid when the Japanese got too close and the flyers had to move out of Dr. C.'s hospital. Somehow the Chinese always came up with a vehicle, hurried them on their way. At Choo Chow Lishui (where Lawson had planned to land after bombing Tokyo) the airport was blown up. At Nanching the field was destroyed. They pulled into Hengyang, pushed on to Kweilin. The Flying Tigers had already moved...
Platoon six came forth with an acapella choir to sing some original songs by Richard Roban and cop first place among the eight skits. Competition was so close for the first prize award of being first to chow for a week that the company morale officer, Lieutenant Herbert Fields, who acted as judge, was unable to decide among the offerings of the sixth, fifth, and seventh platoons. A poll of the entire company the following morning, however, decided in favor of the "Singing Sixth...