Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondents at the various headquarters tended to judge these arrangements by the ragged fashion in which news was released. Those with Admiral Halsey complained that both the Navy Department and MacArthur's headquarters were hogging the releases. From MacArthur's headquarters the New York Daily News's shrewd Jack Turcott cabled that the offensive "apparently has revealed a wider differentiation than ever...
...They could have kept on fighting. They had plenty of ammunition left. They had raided American supply dumps for food. But so eager for death were they that they could not wait. The grenades they could have thrown against Americans were pressed against their bowels in honorable hara-kiri fashion...
...feminine topics of ruffles and steatopygia, a slim, unruffled expert made sense last week. Said Mrs. Mary Brewster White, OWI's expert on womanpower, to 300 clothes-conscious fashion editors and designers: "If there must be pants ... let them be designed so that they do not dishearten 'she who doubles any measurement that Venus can offer.' . . . [As] for ruffles . . . they have no place in wartime...
...among O.C.s), students start off with six weeks' intensive study of the infantryman's 13 weapons, from Garand to bazooka. They learn what each can and cannot do; sometimes they aim a weapon two hours before firing. They also learn to live harder and in more orderly fashion than they knew even in the Army's tough school of the enlisted soldier...
Tall, handsome Thomas Stanly Treanor is 35 years old, with a mop of jet-black hair and a shy face. He started out in routine fashion, reporting for Hearst papers in Los Angeles (his home). Later he joined the Los Angeles Times as woman's-page editor, in 1940 got his Home Front column to write...