Word: hankered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airlines joined to advocate competition in postwar international aviation (TIME, July 26), the great unknown was why United Air Lines was among the holdouts. The other two-Pan American Airways and American Export Airlines-were the first U.S. lines to fly foreign routes and naturally would not hanker for too much competition. But United is next to the largest U.S. domestic flyer, has flown international routes only since the Army's Air Transport Command gave it some war business...
When it comes to art, both Army and Navy still hanker after gauze and goddesses. The Army's prime favorite is still James Montgomery Flagg's World War I Uncle Sam, pointing imperiously and saying: "I Want YOU." The Navy's oldtime winner was a throat-catcher Howard Chandler Christy-a wistful girl who says: "Gee, I wish I were a man-I'd join the Navy." The Navy is itching to use it again...
...those who suffer from repressions, Freudian or otherwise, the Harvard Crimson, stomping ground of the fourth estate, offers a sure cure. If you feel muffled and crave free expression, the Crimson's columns provide a liberal and active medium. If you hanker after handing an annual twenty-three to two trimming to the Lampoon, you'll get your chance as a Crimson editor--even if you can't play baseball...
...hanker feverishly for an electric razor, but stoutly maintain that his old razor is the only thing that will lick his whiskers. A woman may love to prance giddily to the strains of hot music, but insist that nightclubs bore her, that she would rather curl up with a good book. Instead of going in for statistical questionnaires and surveys. Dr. Dichter talks to people, studies their personalities. He doesn't always believe what they...