Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clear the Decks. In Portland, Ore., a woman asked her ration board for ten pounds of canning sugar for her nameless baby, explained: "The baby isn't born yet, but I want to get my canning done before I go to the hospital." Where There's Smoke. In Neosho Rapids, Kan., Farmer Ralph Blank, burn ing trash, watched a plane circle and land in a field nearby. The pilot, a cigaret dangling from his lips, approached and begged a light...
When he sold eight cartoons to the Arizona Highway magazine, he wrote Mom exuberantly: "By return mail will come a BEE-OO-TIFUL check for $16! Of course $2 isn't a heck...
...That was a Wednesday. On Sunday he called and said 'Now, this is the 30th time I've called you, isn't it?' I said, 'Yes, that's right.' And he said: 'Well, supposing a man was madly in love with you, how often would he call you?' And I said, 'Oh, about once a day, I guess.' And then he said: 'All right, so I've called you 30 times, that means that actually I have known you for quite a long time-like 30 days...
Chaplain Myers believes that his plain speaking should act as a challenge to churchmen: "There is no need for our churches to fear the truth. Frankness in this matter is not against the war effort, and it isn't expected of churches that they should surrender their idealism. We should understand now, before the great discharge of soldiers begins, that foxholes are not now and never will do the work of our Christian institutions...
Ezra Pound, brick-bearded expatriot facing a U.S. treason charge for broadcasting Fascist propaganda from Italy, debated what poetic justice should be in his case, finally concluded: "Well, if I ain't worth more alive than dead, that's that. If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinion, either his opinions are no good or he's no good...