Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When he hitched to Skagway at the start of the Klondike rush of '97, Mike was a strapping, redheaded six-footer from the backwoods of Quebec. He was handy with his fists and his feet, could kick off the bar in the hitch-and-kick* at eight feet. He put together a nondescript dog team, began mushing supplies for the sourdoughs. He blazed a 1,400 mile dog-team trail from Dawson to Nome. He toted a piano on his back up the 1,200 ft. of Chilkoot Pass. With a corpse as cargo, he mushed over the mountains...
While Congress' new draft law awaited the President's signature, thousands of young men had stormed the nation's armories. To them, a three-year hitch in the National Guard or Organized Reserves (with regular drill periods near home) looked much better than a 21-month hitch as a draftee. By the time the President signed the law, the reserves were chockablock with new recruits, and the Guard was almost over its national goal of 341,000 enlistments...
Ever since he graduated from Dartmouth (Phi Beta Kappa '36), Louis Tomlinson Benezet (rhymes with cigarette) has known what he wanted to be: a college president. His father was a professor at Dartmouth, and Louis himself, except for a wartime hitch in the Navy, has spent all his time in education - as teacher, student, administrator...
Stalemate. The hitch did not result from lack of initiative on U.N.'s part. Indeed, the Dutch claimed that U.N.'s Good Offices Committee in Indonesia (made up of an American, an Australian and a Belgian) was pushing too hard and too fast. Under the truce agreement reached last January, the Dutch and the Republicans were supposed to work out plans for a federal United States of Indonesia, to take over sovereign powers...
...Higher wages have been showered on them (up 150% since 1943); massed descamisados are drafted for "spontaneous" demonstrations, and have gained a sense of participation in government they never had before. If they have lost what independence they had, it doesn't seem to bother them. Most serious hitch ahead: whether Perón can hold them despite zooming living costs...