Word: gulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which has raided all kinds of A.F. of L. unions. But the Executive Council received a letter from John Lewis last week cooing his willingness to dissolve District 50 into the appropriate A.F of L. unions. The Executive Councilmen, thinking of 600,000 dues-paying members, prepared to gulp down their old hatred. Labor Expert Louis Stark predicted flatly: the U.M.W. will be readmitted soon...
Politics in the Bluegrass State is usually as hot as a searing gulp of straight Kentucky corn, as close-fought as a banner-year Derby. This year's gubernatorial elections are no exception. At the post in the Democratic primary this week...
...moving van (around 5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.), Lou Diamond has one of the most notable paunches in the Marines. Beer did it. At Quantico he regularly stationed a detail to buy him a case when the PX opened at 4 o'clock, knocked it off, one gulp to the bottle...
...rose Director Oveta Gulp Hobby: "There is absolutely no foundation of truth in the statement." Tough old War Secretary Henry L. Stimson was moved to issue a formal statement: "... I have made a thorough investigation of all these rumors.* They are completely false. . . . Anything which would interfere with [WAAC] recruiting or destroy the reputation of this corps and, by so doing, interfere with increase in combat strength of our Army, would [aid] the enemy...
...House Committee prepared to throw in a few restrictions: 1) WAAC officers may command women only; 2) WAACs may not draw dependency pay from soldier husbands; 3) the WAAC's commanding officer, photogenic, 38-year-old Colonel Oveta Gulp Hobby, may not rise above that rank. Thus with the, WAAC strength headed toward 375,000, Colonel Hobby will have more troops under her administrative control than several lieutenant generals...