Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second inning. Jack Wallace, leading off, was walked. Eckenroth then rolled what looked like an easy double play ball to Dick Stoeber, the opposing third baseman; but he threw the ball wide of second, Wallace going to third and Eckenroth to second. Steve "Legs" Bucek rified a clean single down the third base line, sending in the two runners...
...searchers found the Takasago "a very second-rate ship" by U.S. standards -insanitary, inadequately staffed, poorly equipped, and with food and medicine for only about 150 of the nearly 1,000 men it was going to pick up. Only the hospital space was comparatively clean; everywhere else there were dirt and cockroaches...
Artie and his glib earthiness are frequently amusing. (He rebels at standing "the thoid inspection in three days . . . I got enough to do to keep me truck clean without bothering too much about me person.") His weekly appearance in Yank was a popular one. But untraveled civilians who try to read 51 of his adventures at a sitting will find the laughs wearing thin. Author Brown himself puts a finger on the weakness of his book as civilian entertainment when he notes that Artie's "character was appreciated by those who were living with someone like him and listening...
...Mickey Mouse Era. Cause of the inflation was no mystery. The Islands were picked clean by the Japs and goods are scarce. Souvenir-hunting G.I.s and well-heeled Filipinos snap up the thin leavings at any price. Moreover, the Filipinos themselves became accustomed to fantastic prices when the Japs flooded the Islands with their "Mickey Mouse" paper money. At one time, five pounds of rice cost 1,000 pesos in Jap printing-press currency...
...passion and vigor-just, he said, as "certain racehorses run for the pure joy of running." The product, Critic Rosenfeld points out, had a double quality. Its pictures of the period were brilliantly illustrative: e.g., "a boy drawing gasoline out of an automobile tank so that a girl can clean her satin shoe ... a young fellow sitting in his B.V.D.s after a bath running his hand down his naked skin in indolent satisfaction . . . two bucks from a pump-and-slipper dance throwing hash by the handful around Childs' at 6 a.m." But now the stories were increasingly marked...