Word: inked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wingate's Raiders. The British were frank in admitting that the Burmese campaign was bad. But the whole ledger was not written in red ink. An action reported last week was a hopeful note for the future...
...them all got the General William L. Mitchell Air Trophy to show to his wife and eight kids (one serving on land, two at sea, three in the air). To "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell came a bid from his Peking-born daughter, Alison, 22, to her New York show of ink paintings in the Chinese style...
...Financier Eugene Meyer upped and bought the moribund Washington Post for $825,000 and became a newspaperman himself. Mrs. Meyer, printer's ink in her blood, immediately took a new whack at her first love. (On one occasion she tore off a searing indictment of WPA in a spectacular series of articles.) But her multitudinous other interests took too much of her time. Gradually her newspapering simmered down to review ing books by her great and good friend Thomas Mann...
...nostrils of this ex-newspaperwoman widened when recently she began to hear from such friends as U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran about appalling housing and sanitation conditions and increases in venereal disease and delinquency in war-plant areas and military towns. Mrs. Meyer began to sniff printer's ink again...
Boys and girls in the upper teens are apparently committing more U.S. crimes. There were as yet no conclusive figures. But the nation's newspapers and police-station blotters were daily splashed with lurid ink about the deeds of the generation just too young to fight. Juvenile delinquency rose 10% last year in New York and Chicago, was up to 100% in war-boom towns. Case histories of last week...