Word: flirt
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Will have to flirt with dollies that are real...
...would change places with our civilian sisters? Who would give up the comfort of flat heels and lisles, or our little gremlin suits or the mail-box mob or rows of wet white gloves, or disbursing problems, or our mail from Bu Sand A? Not We! We Would rather flirt with Portsmouth. After all, you could win fame knitting socks for chilly sailors-and who knows, membership in the Portsmouth Outing Club could be exciting-well novel anyway...
...delinquency was up 20% over last year in Los Angeles; in New Orleans it was up 56% among Negroes, 5% among whites; in Boston up 15%. Said Dr. Mary Fisher, head of Vassar's child-study department: "There are thousands of 12-to 15-year-old girls who flirt with men in uniform. Educators should do something about them. They are war casualties...
...Some girls flirt at work. Douglas Aircraft (about 25% of whose employes are now women) had to close its Santa Monica plant's bomb shelter with heavy tar paper (to be broken in case of a real air raid) because swing-shift couples found it too handy for lovemaking during lunch...
...months and years ahead Britain's Government might move to the left, or even flirt with dictatorship, for the sake of war efficiency. But nothing could un-British the British. Among other indications, infallible spring, with the inevitable, incurably English bulbs, brought out the inevitable, incurably British rhymesters...