Word: honked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...censorship, was slow in coming out. On Sunday afternoon at an airport outside Paris, 16 newsmen had been assembled-on 15 minutes' notice-and told they were to cover an important out-of-town assignment. After their big C-47 was in the air, Brigadier General Frank A. ("Honk") Allen Jr., SHAEF press chief, shouted above the engines' roar to the 16: "Gentlemen, we are going ... to cover the signing of the peace. . . . This story is off the record until the respective . . . Governments announce [it]. I therefore pledge . . . you on your honor not to communicate the results...
...jeopardize plans for meeting the German offense. Correspondents said it less politely: the First Army had been caught with its pants down and the high command was trying to cover up. In a stormy session at Supreme Headquarters they told General Eisenhower's press chief, Brigadier General Frank ("Honk") Allen what they thought of SHAEF's news blackout...
Into Paris last fortnight and smack into the worst tangle in World War II reporting strode squarejawed, battle-seasoned Brigadier General Frank Ulbert ("Honk...
General Allen, a professional soldier who prefers combat to conferences, modestly honked that chief credit for this improvement should go to rayon-smooth naval Captain Harry Butcher, ex-CBS radio executive, aide and close companion of General Eisenhower. For himself, Honk Allen claimed only to have used a field soldier's methods to help clean up a mess...
...honky-tonk where the proprietor is trying to do him out of his pay (average: $4 per tuning) to the studio of a professional musician who hovers around trying to tell him how to perform his highly technical job. He must preserve his equanimity while clocks tick, automobiles honk and children play with his tools. Working with intense concentration, he can rarely tune more than three or four pianos a day. Despite their calm, it is not surprising that piano tuners sometimes have nervous breakdowns...