Word: dot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning after the Big Snow and Washington was digging itself out of a blizzard. The staff was in early, cleared desks, sat down before the hour to wait for the first appearance of the new Old Man. He came in on the dot, slim, stern and businesslike. His staffers caught the gimlet look in his grey eyes, the rudimentary mustache masking a stubborn lip, the swatch of bright ribbons on his chest, the well-tailored uniform, the Corps of Engineers buttons* on the blouse...
...manpower problem is rapidly coming round to the inevitable solution: womanpower. Slacks and hairnets dot the nation's warplants now -and thousands on thousands of women stand ready to rear munitions as well as children. The U.S. had no trouble in converting women to war -the problem was to get enough war work for the women...
...Looy, dot Dope was the nickname, borrowed from Milt Gross, which Lewis Brereton's Army chums pinned on him years ago. It was a mark of affection and respect. Brereton, from the start of his Army career, was dopey like a tiger...
Four-thirty on the dot, and they poured into the Sacred Room--many for the last time, Vag thought, with his lip 'trembling. Four eventful years he had known them, or almost, from their first naive appearance in the Square which Recognizes Neither Birth Nor Breed. And now they doffed their childish honors and went forth into a stern intense world. The Vagabond perched himself on the back of the President's chair and listened to the reports. Words, words, words, words, so cheerful, so gallantly smutty, and so terribly inadequate. "To be at home in all lands and ages...
...January 1942 the U.S. has its greatest supply of food in all history. A two-year store of wheat lies heavy in the big concrete granaries of Chicago and Minneapolis, in the steel bins, like sawed-off oil tanks, which dot the Midwestern countryside. Rude, slatted corn cribs groan from overloading as well as frost: the U.S. has enough corn for 18 months...