Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...released this week by Associated American Artists. Where the shadow comes from is an art problem that plain observers are left to guess. McKnight Kauffer's abstract Steel! Not Bread poster (see cut} would probably confuse even sophisticated observers. Illustrator Jean Carlu's mechanistic Give 'Em Both Barrels ( see cut} is modern chewing-gum art, minus the latter's peppermint flavor. Workers in five New Jersey plants on whom it was tested came up with the conclusion that Illustrator Carlu meant to depict the FBI's fight against crime. They mistook the riveter...
...noncommissioned officers until they are graduated. Dates with officers must wait until they are officers themselves. But no WAAC has yet been disciplined for conduct unbecoming an officer candidate. No recalcitrant WAAC will be sent to the guardhouse. Svelte, smart, serene Oveta Hobby, the director, suggests: "Dock'em." Colonel Faith's idea: "Curtail their privileges...
...Annapolis he had been fullback on the football team, and the midshipmen had given him the nickname he still carries: "Old Hookem." (On the gridiron, where he was cool and harddriving, the midshipmen used to shout: "Hook 'em, Ghormley! Hook 'em!") In the classroom he had an air of amused disinterest, but he wore on his blouse the gold star of the distinguished cadet, was graduated twelfth in his class...
...down moon from them," said Fighter Allison, "and they made a 180-degree turn away from me. The radio called: 'You see 'em?' I answered: 'Watch the fireworks.' But they let go at me first, hit my motor, burned my hand with an incendiary bullet. I was right behind three Japs and there was no use in quitting at that point...
...Rudman adopted a "let 'em hit" policy in these situations and not worked so hard for strikeouts via the spot pitching method, he might not have suffered the fate of allowing five runs to be scored despite his masterful six hit effort...