Word: furloughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunburn & Archeology. Despite Mexico City's thin air and his back-breaking schedule, the President seemed to enjoy his furlough from Washington immensely. He returned the "Vivas!" of street crowds, shook hands untiringly at dinners and parties, slept well under a robe of vicuna pelts at the embassy, got up as early as usual. On his last day he went sightseeing. In the morning he took a 2½-hour jaunt in the Sacred Cow, peered down from 13,000 feet at smoking Paricutin volcano. After that, reddening in the sun, he drove 30 miles to view the archeological...
...being Guelph & Ghibelline, or Roundhead & Cavalier, they are a Soviet officer and an American newspaper correspondent (Philip Dorn & Claire Trevor). They meet in Russian-occupied Austria-the girl is there on her own, looking for an American who did treasonable broadcasts for the Nazis; the Russian is on furlough. While fighting over ideologies, they fall in love; between kisses the girl confides that she is looking for the traitor, and the lover snaps back into the officer. But after some random melodrama, there is both a personal and an ideological get-together...
...Pennsylvania briefly before entering the service, defeated in three sees George L. Rogers, perennial stalwart of Ireland's Davis Cuppers. While in the service, the Holworthy Yardling played very little tennis, although he did win the Ohio State men's championships in the summer of 1943 when on furlough...
Sargent Kennedy leaned back in his chair and scrutinized the khaki-clad private with deanlike eye. Watching the minutes of his furlough tick by, the private gave the dean a flshy, enlisted-man's stare--the attentive, ingratiating stare that might go with muddy boots or non-G.I. shoes...
...trip might cause a member of the Naval Armed Guard to utter some unholy things about his own $76 or $92 monthly draw. But members of the Armed Forces and the public at large rarely stop to compute the full income tax that merchant seamen must pay, vacation or furlough money that these seamen must supply for themselves, and family allotments that civilian seamen must supply out of their pay. The official Navy Journal, after a survey of both groups, concluded that there was no great difference in Merchant Marine and Navy pay, stating further that certain ranks...