Word: dipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They will dip into the goldfish bowl for the third time in Washington this week. They will fish out, one by one, 8,000 to 9,000 capsules, containing the numbers that will determine the order of induction into the U.S. Army of the 9,000,000 men who signed up in the Third Registration. Early numbers will mean a call to arms some time in June. Meanwhile the Army will pick & choose from among the 17,500,000 registrants of 1940-41. Last week many a registrant, teetering uneasily between mufti and khaki, was confused about the future...
Without poaching on melodrama, Director Richard Thorpe manages to add triumphant suspense to his mauled hero's removal from the torture hideout by having him, though blindfolded, scratch the door jamb in departing, count the steps going down to the car, recall the turns, a dip in the pavement, a stop-&-go signal, the sound of a calliope, etc. All these well-noted clues come home to roost when he goes over the ground a second time...
...afraid the light does not shine anything like so brightly. Sometimes it is no better than a gas jet, and I am afraid that in their determination not to change any system that we have been working on for years ... it seems little more nor less than a farthing dip...
While the two thick-skinned waterfrosh took their refreshing dip, fellow yardling J. Glick Busby performed the service of holding their vestments. He reports that when they came for their clothes "there was a loud noise, and a rush, and then I wasn't holding the stuff any more...
...bill passes Congress in that form, original calculations will have to be revised, draft officials will have to look more sharply at married men and men with dependents. Some Congressmen vowed they would fight to have the 19-year minimum restored. But whatever bill passes, conscription is going to dip deep down into the country's male population...