Word: gulping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the K.O. report is in all we have to do is sit back and relax--only finals, psycho tests, pictures, uniforms, board meetings (gulp), and commissioning stand in the way of our "taking the long way home," as sister Jo so aptly puts it. The local clergy is thinking of petitioning for finals more often--or is someone really converting all of those sinners we saw last Sunday...
...duck again. Now an amphtank chuffs up on the beach, swings and throws a shot to the left. Next in are the amphtracks, and then the landing boats, loaded with troops. Presently the beach has a jeep, a bulldozer, a U.S. flag. These things make the landing official. I gulp scalding tea from an Army canteen cup and wade ashore...
...fresh out of officer school, they began their careers in the women's army. There were some 670 other women in officer school at the same time. The nine swam to the top, became lieutenant colonels and the ranking WACs, topped only by their boss, Colonel Oveta Gulp Hobby...
...Lawyer Gulp's Little Girl. People in Houston observed that even if Oveta Gulp Hobby had started as a private she would have soon become the colonel anyhow...
...Hobby's Washington apartment was elegant with antiques. (Friends who sublet it for a while kept their young son in the bathroom most of the time because they were afraid he would break some thing.) As busy as she was, Isaac William Gulp's little girl never lost her style, her poise, her figure. Guests admired the way she appeared on sweltering nights looking cool and handsome in dinner dresses with ruffles. She thought she looked best in yel low and chartreuse. She always had a weakness for absurd headgear and courageously indulged...