Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...philosophy necessarily is: "It will keep." The pale-faced submarine man lives a crowded, dehydrated existence which may cause him to lose as much as 20 Ib. during his three months or so at sea. But he eats well, especially in the newer, larger ships, which stock fresh fruits, frozen steaks and turkeys...
...Fresh Jap troops landed to the east under cover of darkness Tuesday, joining enemy forces which landed there Monday night...
...what she saw. But few books could be more timely. Reason: few Britons have ever seen the U.S. so clearly or reported what they saw with such understanding and fairness. But Harriet Martineau's book is important in another way. It looks, through the author's fresh and enthusiastic eyes, on an America that was itself fresh and enthusiastic, and leads to a thoughtful stocktaking of what America (and Britain) were and what they have become...
Freeman's narrative of Jackson's first Valley Campaign is perhaps the best thing in Lee's Lieutenants. Among his fresh details is the fact that Jackson dug out an expert cartographer and had him make good maps of the whole Blue Ridge region. He also drew up tables that would show him at a glance the distance between any two points in his territory. Other officers, unaware of Deacon Jackson's attentive preparations, sometimes agreed with Cavalryman "Dick" Ewell that he was crazy...
...Journal staff, strong men all, paled. But, game to the core, Ayers hired six female copyreaders: his own secretary, the wife of the Journal's drama critic, the wife of another Journal employe, a publicity man's secretary, a trade publication employe, and a likely candidate fresh from Northwestern University's journalism school...