Word: ems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many years-ever since "Puddler Jim" Davis took Dewey into the Labor Department-he has been bouncing back & forth between Washington, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, spreading balm. A onetime railroad telegrapher, 59-year-old Jim Dewey has become the government's ace mediator. His methods are simple: get 'em together, keep 'em cool, let 'em talk...
...each equipped with a toolbox outfit that left nothing to be wanted, over a cliff. . . . They saw thousands of crated brand-new jeeps being burned . . . and you can't get a jeep to drive with on the island. The orders are: 'Destroy before the civilians get 'em.' They say they're doing a better job of 'burnt earth policy' than when the Japs took over. Maybe they're doing the right thing. I don't know...
Although Nimitz drew no attention to this fact, it was no coincidence that the heavy-armor men had gone over the side. As one of the young Turks put it: "They couldn't kick 'em too hard as they let 'em drop. That hurts enough...
...years ago. In his jinx tourney last week, played on the country's third toughest course, Perfectionist Nelson slipped on an early 18-inch putt, blamed wet turf, then rolled flawlessly home with a winning 284. Nelson's most likely challenger was not present: a hit-'em-a-mile amateur, Army Lieutenant Gary Middlecoff, who burned up the fairways while on furlough last fall...
Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger, veteran of the Pacific war; flew into New York last week to spend Christmas with his wife Em, made a suggestion which Army wives everywhere overheard. Said General Eichelberger, recently appointed boss of U.S. occupation forces in Japan...