Word: hugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ditches for Precision. The bombers' targets were close enough to the U.S. lines to make sweating doughboys hug their ditches and curse in exasperated admiration. An American battalion commander who had to take his outfit forward in a few minutes fought with a bulky phone, trying to find out whether the air operation was running on schedule. He got a connection to regimental HQ, bellowed into the mouthpiece...
Twofers. In Topeka, Kans., Pete Reilly got an idea for a war-bond rally from an 1878 newspaper item: "Hug socials are now the rage. It costs 10? to hug anyone between 15 and 20, 5? from 20 to 30, $1 to hug another man's wife, bachelor girls two for a nickel, and woman lectur ers free with a chromo thrown...
Abracadabra. In Rio de Janeiro, Dona Rosa met an old friend she had not seen in five years, gave her the ritual hug (abraco&) of Rio residents, broke three of her ribs...
During the first few days of the fighting on Attu, belly wounds were predominant. The reason: green troops had not learned to hug the ground closely. During the later phases of Attu's fierce fight more men were wounded in the buttocks than anywhere else. This prompted the hospital's senior surgeon, Major Merriwell T. Shelton, of Augusta, Me., to observe: "A lot of soldiers wearing Purple Heart ribbons are going to have a hard time explaining how they got wounded...
...pressure on the 14 short-wave stations in the U.S. was fast becoming a bear hug last week. At the war's start, the Nazis had 68 short-wave stations; the Axis-in-Europe now controls an estimated 100. Great Britain has about 50. The U.S. has 14-privately owned, loosely synchronized, a poor match all around for the close teamwork of radio Berlin-Rome-Tokyo. If the overseas branch of the OWI intended to jump with both feet into the global propaganda war, it had to do something about short-wave stations and do it quickly...