Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Mom." In Chicago, he lived at a "magnificent hotel" (the Y.M.C.A.), and wrote numerous letters to his mother. He was impressed by the fact that Chicago had 1,156,000 telephones, 5,100 lawyers, 3,400 dentists, 9,200 physicians. At his first life class at the Institute, he blushed furiously: the naked model was a girl. "Man, does she have a shape!" he wrote to his mother...
...worse. But Manager Leo Durocher's pre-season prediction that he would uncork some useful pitchers had come true. The hitters, led by Puerto Rican Luis Olmo had made a habit of coming through in the clutch. These tangible assets, and the old Flatbush urge to die for dear old Durocher. had enabled the Dodgers to win eleven straight for a season record...
...long time though, the men continue to look and feel like duds. At a tea given by an R.A.F. pilot's mother-in-law, they crab interminably about their rotten treatment; and the gently experienced old lady replies, "O dear, it's a shame, isn't it? Who'll have another chocolate biscuit?" But it is in their worst failure that the men learn their best lesson. Deliberately "getting killed'' in order to loaf through a sham-battle, they already are soldiers enough to be ashamed...
After five years in the German Reich, Winston Churchill's "dear Channel Islands" were back in the British Empire last week. The Germans had surrendered. Cheering crowds lined the harbor of St. Peter Port, the port of Guernsey, to greet the British battalions. Then, out of an assault craft stepped an austere, black-clad man. On his head was a black bowler. In one hand he held a tightly rolled umbrella. Under one arm he hugged a black G.R. (a dispatch case with a George Rex imprint). At the first sight since 1940 of a typical London civil servant...
...Associated Press flash from Reims came over the radio-newsroom tickers at 9:35 a.m. Was it or wasn't it the starter's gun? The networks, ad libbing for dear life, decided that...