Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also scrubbed pots & pans in the mess tents. One night, seeing some Japs lying in ambush, José raced back to a G.I., saluted stiffly and cried: "Sir, Japanese sniper-this way, please!" Often he slipped at night to his parents' home, returned with roasted chickens, fresh eggs and bucayo (bits of coconut fried in brown sugar) for his G.I. pals...
Last fall, the vote of the entire student body upheld the honor system by a margin of only eighteen votes. Another vote, called in the near future, would very probably result differently. Students would have fresh in mind the experiences of reading period, when the pressure especially undermines the system. Freshmen, now more fully acquainted with the failings of the honor system, would be likely to switch their votes. The honor system in the library is a luxury which cannot be afforded at present...
Raging ground blizzards threw up new mountainous drifts on the snow-smothered western plains yesterday, piling up fresh blockades to rail and auto travel and posing a new crisis for snow-bound livestock and ranchers...
...Bevin really want agreement? It was hard to tell from his hesitation in the days preceding recognition of Israel by Britain. Winston Churchill, fresh and saucy after a vacation on the French Riviera, raked him with merciless verbal talons. Churchill spoke of "folly, fatuity and futility . . . the quintessence of maladresse" and compared Bevin to a cuttlefish which retires "under a cloud of inky water and vapor . . . to some obscure retreat...
Abstractions In Canterbury. The earliest of the manuscripts, dating from the dark ages of Europe, had been strongboxes of Christian culture. Done mostly on calfskin parchment and laced with burnished gold and rainbow colors, they had kept fresh and shining through the centuries. One of them, an 8th Century psalter believed to have been made by the monks of Canterbury, was decorated with twining capital letters as abstract and whimsically complicated as any paintings produced today. Another, dating from the early 9th Century in France, was a book of the four Gospels written entirely in gold on pages dyed purple...