Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Saturday's liberty found many Chase luminaries out basking in the fresh air and smoke light of the Stagier's dance. To mention a few, "Robel" Smith, string bean drawl expert, Bill Shuey, and Kirby "Sour" Pickie were in attendance. Tom Wilcox musta used his Virginia drawl to influence roommates Wood, of Florida, and Woodin, who once spent week ends in Iowa, into the Bradford College affair. A word to the wise all agree that Bradford is fairly loaded with prospective...talent...
Oklahoma! Fresh-as-mint folk musical with charming dancing and gay Richard Rodgers tunes (TIME, April...
...Force. Somehow dodging air observation, the Jap landed his reinforcements in four transports at Ormoc, at the south end of the hammerhead of Leyte. Two transports were sunk by P-38 and P-40 fighter-bombers, but only after they had been unloaded. By that time fresh Jap tanks and trucks were moving up the highway from Ormoc to the front. It was still true that the battle for Leyte had been decided, but its length and its total cost were yet to be counted. Nobody believed that the Japs would fail to run true to Bushido form, fight...
Shopkeepers were closing their doors, unable to sell what luxury goods they had left (fine German cameras, handsome Swiss watches), unwilling to sell for drachmas what little food they had. A fish seller would refuse several billion drachmas, but jump at the offer of some fresh olives in exchange for a fish. Three cigarets would buy more than cash in a market where bread was priced at 11 billions a pound, eggs at 15 billions apiece...
...soldier traded a quart of Scotch for one of the first cucumbers from a new U.S. truck farm in the Pacific. But by last week U.S. soldiers and bluejackets were harvesting more fresh vegetables than they could eat, sending the ample surplus to their fighting comrades. First of its kind in the Central Pacific, the Guam garden is part of an expanding system of island farms (already 5,000 acres) which are producing every month more than 2,000 tons of tomatoes, cabbages, peppers, corn and other truck for the armed forces...