Word: doled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steam, finally roaring along at breakneck speed. When workers get down to work, they do so to the crash of jazz-band disks. Girls keep time by wiggling their hips on their stools, somehow manage to control their machines. Jack & Heintz associates are also permitted to smoke, receive a dole of free doughnuts. They get one free hot meal per shift, unlimited free vitamins. They even have free vacations, which are apparently spent dancing the hula-hula in straw skirts on a sun-drenched isle off Florida...
...used mainly for sport ; but in the West and South, rifles are a tool used to kill rabbits and deer which ruin crops. Window screens, unneeded in some places (New York City), are vitally necessary to protect Southerners from malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Long ago WPB was forced to dole out more ammunition for civilian rifles...
...this fact be faced: the other Parties are not so far behind as they were. . . . We want a policy of full employment. . . . This country, patient, reasonable, politically mature, ready to compromise though it may be, will not again be patient with the miserable spectacle of dole-fed millions eating out their hearts and wasting their lives on the street corners...
...critical rationing of tickets for the mixer was in effect last Tuesday, necessitated by reason of the fact that there are some 660 B School men and only 64 WAVES. So the fortunate ones that got in on last Tuesday's ticket dole will be the only ones admitted to greet the WAVE contingent tomorrow night...
Those men interested in transferring from the regular infantry to the Mountain Troops when they are inducted into the Army, will receive application blanks at the meeting and be instructed to interview Dole personally from 9:30 to 1 o'clock or from 2 to 5 o'clock tomorrow in Little Hall...