Word: gapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle will prove how good are these 40,000, and only battle will give them the combat polish that marks the full-fledged fighting man. But T.I.S., vastly expanded, vastly speeded up, has worked its pupils into a soldier's mold with an efficiency that has made pedagogues gape. Yale's Dr. James G. Rogers calls it "magnificent." A Harvard Law School professor, after a lifetime studying teaching methods, was unable to suggest an improvement, said it was "perhaps the most important place in America." A graduate, who had degrees from Harvard and Oxford, said: "My education...
Back from his entertainment tour of the South Pacific military bases, gape-grinned Film Comedian Joe E. Brown had covered 32,000 miles, had seen more war front than most U.S. soldiers. He had ripped through comedy routines before 8 a.m. and hours after dark. One show he did in Papuan jungle grass up to his hips, six minutes' march from Jap positions; another went on in a driving downpour at Milne Bay, New Guinea...
...head & shoulders above all others. One of them is an obvious object of professional admiration: the U.S. Navy. But the other would stump most guessers. It is the unpaid, volunteer Civil Air Patrol. Men in ships, hardened by endless repetition to the inherent hazards of their own calling, still gape with honest admiration when they hear the sewing-machine hum of a low-powered CAP engine far from land and see a tiny landplane soaring overhead, patiently on the watch for the feather of a U-boat's periscope...
With the help of 17 paying subscribers he has slowly boosted his little paper into the profit stage, a feat to make any red-ink-stained publisher gape. Last week Alvin was grossing "about 90? a week, barely enough to buy materials...
After Rangoon, the battle for Burma was a struggle to keep the Japs in the south, at the river mouths. In the spring, the south is a grey, heat-beaten land, where only the rivers are cool and even the wide rice paddies gape with cracks in the baking earth. It is a time when prudent men, fools, even Englishmen stay out of the midday sun. But the Japs fought in the sun, and drove the British steadily up the Irrawaddy and Sittang valleys. Then the Chinese came down from the north...