Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the first flush of hero stories had almost run its course, more comprehensive news about the Solomon Islands began to find its way through the ironbound Navy censorship. The Marines still held what they had taken, but they would need still more reinforcements and ample supplies if the slender thread of their strength was to endure. Nobody knew this better than their 55-year-old commander, Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift. Despite destruction of 42 Japanese planes, without U.S. loss, and damage to enemy ships, he was in a tight spot. Aware of this fact, Admirals Ghormley and Nimitz...
...five o'clock, the troops eat a breakfast which may consist of French toast, Karo syrup, sausages and coffee. The world's loveliest sunrise is golden and purple and leaden. As soon as light appears ("back over there where home is") a faint flush of warmth pushes back the cool of night. By eight o'clock it is hot and sticky. Standard dress is a pair of khaki shorts, nothing more. The soldiers, sailors and marines are all brown as leather. Men who are not manning guns usually finish their work of building, rebuilding, camouflaging and drilling...
...Francisco waterfront honky-tonks, the reports last week were all the same: business is 25% to 100% above last year and still growing. In many places the take is even above that of the Tinkling Twenties. Reasons: 1) a splurge by uniformed men and the New Rich-the flush war workers; 2) a rush by plain citizens to eat, drink and carouse for tomorrow...
...personal dilemma and that of others like him: "It is in no feeling of gladness that I thus set about revising my picture of the universe. On the contrary, I have the sense of resuming with the greatest alarm and dismay a burden which in the first flush of my agnostical freedom I so gladly laid aside...
Disney himself makes no such claims. All he is trying to do is tell a clear, simple story, lightened by touches of amusement. Already produced or in the Disney works are films on such diverse subjects as teaching flush riveting to workers, Basic English (TIME, June 15), anti-tank gunnery, prostitution, food, Nazi ideology, malaria, good neighbors. He is making some 20 instruction films for the Navy; for the Army he has turned out a series of films on airplane identification, is preparing another on the Nazi invasion of Poland. For fun and good neighborliness he is turning out twelve...