Word: dunking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They learned to brush their teeth, wash their faces, shave and rinse out socks in two inches of water in a mess kit. The mention of British service biscuits brought wry smiles to their faces. Said one hardy biscuit eater: "You could dunk them in water and they'd soak it up all right. Then they'd be just as hard as ever...
...Corps cadets at Oxnard, Calif. voted Vera Zorina owner of "the most beautiful fuselage in the world." Firestone Rubber workers in Akron elected Starlet Alexis Smith "the night shift sweetheart." Gene Tierney prepared to dunk herself, for glamor's sake, in $1,700 worth of essence of gardenias...
...years this almost anonymous corporation has pushed doughnut sales with one of the screwiest publicity campaigns in advertising history. It founded the National Dunking Association, claims for it more than three million members (including Congressman Jennings Randolph, Mrs. Martin Johnson, Martha Graham); holds dunking contests, gets dunking testimonials from unlikely bigwigs like Novelist Pearl Buck. Said she: "If Mayor LaGuardia and Hitler only would get together and dunk a couple of doughnuts, they would see life through the same rose-colored glasses." Standing on his head atop Manhattan's Chanin Building, Flagpole Sitter Shipwreck Kelly ate 13 doughnuts...