Word: going
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Behind Bamboo. Japanese, on the whole, are deeply grateful to Americans; but they like military government no better than any other people. A popular quip among English-speaking Japanese holds that the letters GHQ on Americans' uniforms stand for: "Go Home Quick...
Television in the Bathroom. For some time Thora suffered in silence. But recently fiftyish Understudy Erica O'Foyle had to go on for her. Like many another understudy in her big moment, Erica was nervous, but she did fine for two acts. Then she put on the bewitched jacket and started the third. She went pale, choked and forgot her lines. "My throat went suddenly dry," she explained weakly after the curtain finally came down. "I felt a great hand clutching me from behind. It was horrible." She indignantly denied any suggestion that the trouble might have stemmed from...
...professional medium. Big, bosomy Medium Jane Harley quivered when she touched the possessed garment. Such a treasure was almost too good to be true. She dragged it over her plump arms and promptly went into hysterics. Then the stage manageress, an old trouper herself, had a go at it, and tore the garment off. "I'm choking!" she screamed, and a very convincing scream...
...third time in its 14 years in power, Canada's Liberal government was about to go to the country in a general election. For the first time in 30 years it would be without the leadership of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Last November he had given up the Prime Ministry; last week, having announced that he would not stand for reelection, he ended 33 years as a Member of Parliament...
...kibitzing; a big-league manager should be able to take it. He dished it out. He spat in Durocher's direction and said: "Here, Leo, this is for you." As five hapless Giant pitchers were mauled, he cried at the Giant boss: "Why don't you go in and pitch yourself, you monkey?" Leo also said he heard Fan Boysen reviling his wife, Cinemactress Laraine Day. In the ninth inning, Leo stepped out of the dugout, stared at his heckler and ducked back...