Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Have Met the Enemy. . . ." It had not been so cut & dried at first, while other hopefuls still had hope. Handsome John Bricker, tailor-fresh in a blue tropical suit, arrived in town to the strains of Beautiful Ohio from his own brass band. But three days later, jarred to the heels when Illinois caucused and threw its strength to Dewey, the Bricker forces held a desperate eleventh-hour strategy meeting...
...capital of Sinkiang Province, turned out thousands of Chinese, Mohammedans, Uigurs, Uzbeks, Kazaks and Kueihuas to greet the highest U.S. official who had ever visited that dot in vast Chinese Turkestan. In preparation for the great day, the Governor,General Sheng Shih-tsai, laid in a fresh supply of toothbrushes, tongue-scrapers, and ear-cleaners, had the columns of his house freshly painted, took a U.S. Embassy attaché down a flight of stairs to show him the only flush toilet in all Sinkiang (600,000 sq. mi.). Proudly Governor Sheng pulled the chain. It worked...
...Norman cemetery last week a little French girl, smiling with the maternal pride and pleasure of a little girl doing a womanly job, placed a bouquet of fresh summer flowers atop a fresh mound of earth. The grave was quite new, and efficiently spaded; two shovels stood stiffly at its side. Beneath the fresh Normandy flowers and the earth lay an American, killed before he had so much as seen a German...
...north, the 9th Division had taken Néhou. Veterans of Bizerte and Sicily, the men o f the 9th were now fresh from England, itching for more fight...
About the only foods that have not been successfully frozen, says Sparkes, are tomatoes, potatoes and onions. He has found that even stale bread, frozen, "miraculously thaws out fresh...