Word: hikes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RIVES now has everyone calling him REEVES like he wants them to do....It might have been that Skit at the Company Smoker that did it... Our Section Leader, AL PERRINE, almost committed a faux pas the other Saturday morning when we went out on our little hike along the Charles River.... We all broke step going across the bridge and before we all got across, he shouted, "Fall in." I know that orders is orders. Honey, but I was wearing my new shoes...and a clean shirt...
That long hike across the River and back to Briggs is becoming old stuff to the WAVES who take in everything from boats and ball games and reviews to the NSCS tea dance. Several who strolled over for a late look-in on the affair Saturday were overheard to wonder why they didn't get there earlier. Some lucky girls did go early and were glad...
Next day, the Governor took a holiday. In the morning the Stassens went for a long hike along the Mississippi; at night to Good Friday services at Riverview Baptist Church...
...golf courses are expected to remain in play this year, and the U.S. Golf Association believes there will be enough conditioned golf balls to go round. Links-men were further encouraged by reports last week that in England golf is enjoying one of its greatest seasons. There players hike to the links from the railroad station, tote their own clubs, get along with dingy sticks and a limit of two battered balls per round, play over fairways shorn by grazing sheep. Despite such hardships, British courses are jammed to the 19th hole every weekend...
Under the Ferns. Near Homalin the party left their rafts and began the hike which was to take them to the Chindwin River and over the harsh border mountains to India. The homespun, bowlegged general slogged along with his eye obstinately on his watch, counting out 105 steps to the minute. Cases of malaria cropped out. Faces grew thin. Pus-filled jungle sores broke out on legs and feet. Men stopped joking. They were in the jungle: "Festooned with giant green ferns, decorated with palms such as we had thought grew only in hotel lobbies, and laced and hung with...