Word: grog
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...about one to 40. The students must wear a special uniform, are forbidden to appear on the streets with girls or to have dates with them. Even brothels are closed to them. Their chief relaxation is to get drunk-but even this is difficult. Japan's wartime grog ration is two bottles of beer a month for each male adult...
Early in the war, George VI visited the Home Fleet, ordered extra grog for all hands. For the crew of a bone-dry U.S. cruiser operating with the Home Fleet: extra plates of ice cream...
...drinks are sold. There is no place to spend the evening with a girl in the way of U.S. youth. Sundays are even worse. One vaudeville house and one movie, after soldier protests, were allowed to keep running, but both have enormous queues. Result: U.S. soldiers patronize "sly grog shops" (speakeasies), are victimized by cabbies who know a place where . . . and take their folk games where they find them...
...wife her written consent to her husband's enlistment. To the approved form she had added a rider: "It is further understood and agreed that he shall be well fed at all times, be well and sufficiently clothed, shall not be overworked, shall not be issued too much grog, and, finally, shall not be allowed to associate with dissolute characters...
...dolled-up leg shows they can't always get, all too often get routine stuff they don't want. But in Virginia the Richmond Defense Service Unit of OCD has lately struck gold in an abandoned mine. Again & again at Camp Lee and Fort Eustis, that venerable grog-flogger. Ten Nights in a Barroom, has left the boys looping...