Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Civilian hospitals and doctors are loath to cooperate, for a very good reason: they hate to lose their help. They will sometimes even go so far as to give a nurse a bad report in order to hang onto her. Civilian nurses, admitting that few of them are downright eager to join, turned their sharpest words on the Army Nurse Corps. Complaints from nurses in the Corps, they said, are enough to cool their ardor. Some of these complaints are just normal gripes: U.S. women hate to be ordered around, particularly by other women; homesick Army nurses may exaggerate their...
...clumsy recruit through dozens of daily dozens, interspersed with rope-skipping, shadow-boxing and whatever else might develop coordination until Mikan cried: "What do you want, Coach, my blood?" Slowly Mikan's muscles learned to obey. The onetime marble-shooting champion of Will County, Ill. eventually got the hang of shooting baskets with a marble champion's sharp accuracy, upped his per-game scoring average from 14 points in 1943 to a dazzling 23 points this year...
...their meticulously tidy barracks, they hang up an occasional picture of Hitler. (U.S. prisoners in Germany enjoy the privilege of hanging whatever pictures they please.) More often the Germans have pictures of their families, the Goethe deathmask and Varga girls. They decorate their mess halls with elaborate paintings-the Alps, German heroes, busty girls. Across one day room an artist has painted a group of naked women, on the wall opposite the stern admonition "Ein guter Soldat muss verzichten koennen." (A good soldier must learn to do without...
...Many people will feel very ill indeed, and after the first jubilations a deep depression will hang over these islands, especially over those who wake up in police stations. . . . When the nation has recovered from the shock, a lot of bishops will make exactly the same speeches as bishops made after the last war. . . . This will make a lot of thoughtful people wonder if bishops are worth the money they...
...international bickerings. It will also be a subject for internal political bickerings. Each political party, even the Liberals, will say that they won the war. The only people who will put in no claim at all will be the sailors, soldiers and airmen. Eventually (if we don't hang him quickly) Hitler will claim to have won it -and probably will in the long run, if you don't watch...