Word: inking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WACs went around the world, did almost everything. There were WAC telephone operators at the Quebec Conference. WACs camped in Normandy apple orchards. WACs in the Southwest Pacific made a green and gold company flag from parachute lining dyed with atabrine and green ink. The WACs who landed in New Guinea furnish a fairly typical case history. Arriving at Port Moresby, they drove to their campsite through lines of fuzzy-haired natives and whistling G.I.s. They found the camp in a state of complete unreadiness, but were saved by a "friendly men's unit" that gave them drinking water...
Here it is. Taste it. Smell the ink. Feel the paper. Pass it on to your friends. And if you have any interest in the clothes or anything else when you're through toss everything and run down to Touraine's for the latest in big deals...
gttf 1 abounds with humorous pen and ink sketches. In this particular it departs somewhat from its slightly older fraters, who rely only on the stanza arrangement of their verses to provide comic relief. I think it is enough to say that the primitivistic, etc., themes pervade these drawings, and to conclude from them that gttf 1 has not yet reached that pinnacle of sound literary achievement from which it may return to the cradle and proceed to make pictures of words...
Canada, a nation envied by the world for her brimming postwar budget surpluses, sprang two startling fiscal surprises last week. For the first time in nine years, red ink appeared on the national budget and a $160 million deficit was forecast for the year ahead. But instead of belt-tightening to make up the shortage, Canada launched a bold tax-reduction program, slashing personal and corporation income and excise rates to put more money in circulation and give the country's economy a judicious shot...
...assistant at the scientific meeting at Rostov. Before the meeting ends, the professor himself is called out of the hall and arrested by the secret police. A promising young colleague is torn from his career and family, charged with being a "wrecker." Another goes mad, paints himself with red ink in the laboratory courtyard, in the belief that it will make him immune from arrest. The author of One Man in His Time, who used to inform against his colleagues as a "duty,'' recounts the stories with relish. "Every new day," he recalls, "would bring something fresh, exciting...