Word: cravings
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Although they are no substitute for homecooking, the U.S.O.-Camp Shows, by jeep and by jest, are now delivering much of the entertainment rations that G.I.s in Europe crave. As soon as conditions permit, the program in the Pacific Area will be stepped up, too. One professional company now there is playing Oklahoma! Wrote a grateful G.I.: "I'm glad I've joined the Army. I finally...
...quite clear that the Allies' air offensive has already affected this spirit considerably." And then: "Traffic in the raided cities is difficult and takes a long time. The smallest task demands an effort. . . . Why exert yourself, if you may be dead tomorrow? . . . [The people] are so tired they crave for the end of everything at any cost...
...long time Marine flyers have brooded over their treatment by the Navy, which has declined to give them the kind of a job they crave. They think that when landings are made by Marine divisions, Marine flyers should be called upon to support them. Instead the Navy has reserved that job for Navy flyers, tossing the monotonous and unspectacular job of providing air defense afterward to the Marine...
...want, I crave the time in these, my last years, to come a little nearer to the secrets of Beethoven and a very few other eternal masters...
...purpose in quoting the above is not to pour praise on a man who certainly doesn't need it, much less crave it, but assure others as it has myself, that, after all, the Government is not going in for dancers and artists as recent publicity would indicate, but is really getting he-men for he-jobs...