Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Service. In Manhattan, a stranger fresh from Scotland asked a ticket agent if he knew her son, Jim Smith, who she thought worked for some telegraph com pany either in New York or Chicago ; the ticket agent took a chance, phoned a local telegraph office; the phone was answered by the right Jim Smith...
This mood had solid roots: many Americans wanted to see not year-old pictures of one gallant but pitifully meager raid, but fresh, day-old pictures of raid after raid that leveled Japan into a shambles where not an altar, not a paper house, not a cherry tree still stood whole, and where nothing moved in the ruins...
...Supply Class was honored last week by a colorful talk on provisions by Captain McIntosh. All who came to Cambridge fresh from the feminine stronghold of Northampton agree that lectures from regular Navy men are increasing their stock of nautical vocabulary and seafaring lore by leaps and bounds. Now when seen an old salt knocking a piece of bread against the table before eating it we know it is a holdover from the days when weevils made their homes in the provisions before sailors went to Supply Corps schools...
When the Summer term begins in July, great teachers will find themselves lecturing to about eight hundred students in accomodations for a peace time three thousand, five hundred. At the same time service men on leave in Boston, many of them fresh from college classrooms, will find themselves footloose and fancy free, hungry for something besides bars and burlesque. These two problems could be partially resolved if the University would agree to open its almost sacrosanct classroom doors to a limited number of soldiers and sailors...
...class Viennese, thinks and feels along this century's grand median line of liberal optimism. He suffers, like many of the century's most symbolic men, in a concentration camp. He escapes, as most of them have not, to the U.S., where hope and war are relatively fresh, and where, with a psychoanalyst's help, he becomes fit for new fighting...