Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major failure in human relationship. Employer and employe were not trying to get along as individuals. Their goal must obviously be to raise the U.S. standard of living by producing more & more at lower & lower cost to sell for less & less. It could be reached only by joint action-through "understanding and sensible cooperation. . . ." Both "must accept their share of responsibility to the public welfare and live up to their commitments...
...adequate explanation there are anomalies that might puzzle stouter heads than the leathernecks'. Though they have been told that they are in China to disarm and repatriate Japs, they find other Japs, still armed, standing railroad guard duty alongside them. The marines' word for this is "jacfu"-joint American-Chinese foul...
...confused with other G.I. additions to the language; e.g., snafu (situation normal, all fouled up), janfu (joint Army-Navy foul-up), fubar (fouled up beyond all recognition...
None Better. At a press conference in the Parliament Building he stood, arms akimbo, as he gave straightforward answers to newsmen: "I have never compared Allied soldiers with each other. But there were none better than the Canadians." He shied from direct comment on joint U.S.-Canadian defense planning: "You as well as ourselves have a lively concern for the territorial integrity of North America. You wouldn't sit back and see Florida taken any more than we would see one of your provinces taken...
...forceful Spruille Braden marched up to an NBC microphone last week, gave some straight talk on what the U.S. was up to in Latin America. The U.S., boomed Braden, thought Uruguayan Foreign Minister Rodriguez Larreta's proposal for joint, tough measures against any American nation that violates "the elementary rights of man" was good stuff, "sound." That didn't mean, explained rugged Spruille, that the U.S. was going to "send the Marines anywhere." But neither would Uncle Sam sit around, hands in pockets, "while the Nazi-fascist ideology against which we fought a war endeavors to entrench itself...