Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tootell's best effort since he entered College last November with the Class of '48b, fresh from Tabor Academy, where he had copped the national interscholastic shot-put title. Previously during the past term, he had won easily at Tufts, Andover, and Exeter, switching in the two prep-school meets to the lighter 12 pound schoolboy shot...
Biggest delegation (39 accredited) came from the U.S., officially headed by Secretary of State Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr., fresh from his triumphs in Moscow. But before Stettinius arrived, the U.S. delegation was mustered by Assistant Secretary Nelson A. Rockefeller, who, having labored long and lovingly, is now beginning to know his way around in the Latin American vineyard. Of the other nations, Mexico, the host, had 36 delegates, Cuba 23. Nearly all sent their Foreign Ministers, with technical aides for facts-&-figures discussions, and plenty of decorative women for dancing and dinner parties...
...awful fact was that the Ministry of Health, under Communist François Billoux, was pussyfooting a plan (some said a ten-year plan) to discourage the consumption of alcohol by a long-term rationing of wine. The Ministry wanted to encourage the consumption of fresh fruit juices, by promoting the soft-drink industry and setting up soft-drink bars beside village and city bistros. The immediate purpose was to conserve alcohol for military needs. The long-range purpose was to conserve the national health...
...question of who would run the Pacific War from now on was opened wide last week. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, midway in the task of liberating the Philippines, had not even waited for the mopping-up to begin before he made a bold bid for fresh fields to conquer: "Our motto becomes 'On to Tokyo.' We are ready in this veteran and proven command when called upon...
...came back as he had promised, through 4,000 miles-and 35 months. Far behind now lay the bitter campaign across New Guinea, the dashing leapfrog drive along the 1,500-mile north coast. Still fresh in the memory of his soldiers was the landing in force on Leyte, the swift lancing drive to Mindoro and Marinduque, the dazzling, varied attack that had baffled and finally paralyzed the Jap on Luzon...