Word: ist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week 26 more Marines had flown in from Guam, with flame throwers and 60-mm. mortars, to join the hunt. By day they crawled cautiously up Peleliu's tortured Bloody Nose Ridge, where the ist Marine Division had lost over 6,000 casualties just 30 months before. By night they established cossack posts to bushwhack guerrillas who sneaked out in search of food & clothing. There was one change from the first, historic assault landing on Peleliu. This time the Marine reinforcements jumped at the chance to move in "for experience and target practice...
...TIME says but, oh, so wittily, I could not sleep because I did not know Who wrote the piece I chuckled over so. ist T.R.: Ah, yes, I see now what you mean...
SCENE: A library. CHARACTERS: Two TIME readers, Scotch highballs in hand, discussing TIME (Dec. 9, 1946). ist T.R.: How now, reader, what TIME this...
...ist T.R.: Speak out, wordster! 2nd T.R.: Last night, eleven o'clock, when I had read Macbeth's review in TIME, its tongue...
...MALLIN ist Lieutenant, Air Corps % Postmaster New York City...