Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of the "Keep 'Em Playing" campaign which is being conducted by the Greater Boston Soldiers and Sailors Committee, used sports equipment is now being collected at Phillips Brooks House and will be turned over to the men of the armed forces...
...wended endless miles of desolate country, relieved only by hundreds of gold-leafed temples. Once I saw a yellow-skirted Poonghie-a Burmese priest-and the driver screamed: "Goddam priests, every other one of 'em is a traitor or a Japanese in disguise and nobody dares touch 'em for fear of starting an insurrection." Later I saw Chinese soldiers leading a priest, two handsome Burmese with long flowing hair, bare to the waist and hands tied behind their backs, to be executed...
...That is a good thing for both of us to remember: the same skies, the same hopes-and we will fight together until they are no longer fringed with the same enemy. . . . This is my farewell to you, and this is my farewell message: Go back and give 'em hell...
...liveliest new shows on the air, which has been running for a month, is unavailable to most U.S. radio listeners. Studded with top-flight talent, free from commercials, bathos, exhortations to "keep 'em flying," etc., it is a cheerful half-hour of unadulterated entertainment. Name of the show is Command Performance. Sponsor: Uncle...
...Hickory, who knows his politicians, rattles his saber, polishes off the choice Maryland rye that teetotaling Holden fetches him from the drugstore, and bellows: "Rascals and poltroons! Every one of 'em. If I were in charge, I'd do with them what I should have done to Henry Clay." "What's that?" inquires Holden. "Hang 'em!" says Old Hickory...