Word: hashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they were chased from Rhodes by the Turks and were handed Malta by the Holy Roman Emperor in 1530. Originally Phoenicians, the Maltese have seen Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Aragonese, Italians and French come & go; they have not seen the British, who got Malta after Napoleon's hash was settled, go yet. Up to World War II, Malta's greatest siege was that of 1565, when Grand Master of the Knights Jean de La Valette, for whom the island's capital city is named, beat off the Turks under Dragut...
...lacks a few teeth and his hair is grey, but at 69 George Humble is all set to ship out. Retired from the Navy 20 years ago as chief carpenter's mate, he broke out his old uniform again last week, prepared to work towards another hash mark to add to the swatch of eight that adorn his sleeve already (they represent 32 years' service). Sailor Humble began his career as a blacksmith's apprentice in Ireland, joined the U.S. Navy in 1890, the year he landed in the U.S. He began to hate the Japs back...
Come & Get It. There are no less than 39 items on the Army's ration chart. Even the iron rations of 1942 (a can of pork & beans, a can of meat and vegetable hash, a can of meat and vegetable stew, three cans of biscuit bread, enough soluble bean to make a pint of coffee, a square of chocolate candy) are a vast improvement over the "tinned willie" of World...
...most popular story in Washington last week, at bars, dinner tables, cloakrooms, hash-houses and in any corner where a man could talk behind his hand...
...picture is concerned with the ultimate capture of a fiend who murders Miss Grable's sister (Carole Landis), a hash-house honey whom Mr. Mature, a lowbrow sports promoter, inadvertently promotes right out of his life to Hollywood. Everyone gets what is coming...