Word: fs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet-occupied zone, one morning last week, a Dr. Becker settled himself at his big desk to open his mail. On top of the pile was a blank sheet, marked with a single big F. That same day, in the seaside town of Rostock, the sidewalks were strewn with Fs torn from the newspapers. In Leipzig, Weimar, Potsdam and the Soviet sector of Berlin, white, chalked Fs appeared on the shells of bombed-out buildings. The F stood for Freiheit-freedom from Soviet terror...
...voice often began, "Hello, gang . . ." It reminded "all you kids" of the girls back home. "I just wonder if she isn't sort of running around with . . . 4-Fs . . ." It suggested ". . . throw down those little old guns and toddle off home . . . there's no getting the Germans down . . ." "What," it asked, "will [wounded men] think in later years when there are no jobs for cripples...
...feel. Satchmo had warmed up, as usual, on a few bars from Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, then for an hour they had lazed through old favorites like Basin Street Blues, Fidgety Feet and Sugar. Finally, Louis put down his horn and hit a few high Fs in the plain-talk department...
...Santa Ana (Calif.) Air Base, he was the nearest thing to an Irving Berlin or George M. Cohan of World War II. Loesser ground out some 200 service songs, including a slap at 4-Fs, They're Either Too Young or Too Old, a parade tune called What Do You Do in the Infantry, and one for the WACs: First Class Private Mary Brown...
Local boards were ordered to make a drastic cut in physical requirements. Any man who has been able to fill a civilian job despite stuttering, partial paralysis, a hernia or a crooked spine, will be deemed suitable for the interim army. So will other 4-Fs previously disqualified because of "mental deficiencies, mild in degree." With 1,250,000 4-Fs to choose from, the Army hopes to wipe out its deficit by the end of April...