Word: kid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...water got salt in it. Besides the cook there was a kid from Texas-he was only 18-who died from salt water. They would foam at the mouth, a kind of cream-colored foam, and their tongues would curl, and swell up in their mouths and their lips turn inside out. A gunner's mate died from injuries. Four others died of thirst: they just went out of their heads-they didn't drink salt water...
...Collins) pursuit of her; her ultimate discovery that she really loves her traveling companion (Robert Paige), a cardsharp. In fact, that sort of easy foolishness might make just the right sort of clothesline to hang a beautiful show on. But such a show needs delicate direction, which can kid it along over the bigger, sillier bumps, and make every possible use of its natural beauty. There is no finesse about the kidding in Can't Help Singing, and little astuteness in the use of the open country, the wagons and the people crossing it, or the whole sunrise sense...
...Please God, by Christmas our lads will have taken another town and I will sit down with them and eat chow. They won't have a tree but while they're eating they'll be thinking of the tree in the living room back home. Some kid will make a joke and all the guys will laugh but it's not the kind of laugh they used to have when they were with their folks. And after chow they won't ask me to sing Jingle Bells or Ball Game. They...
...Cleaned up twelve juvenile gangs, adding to Junior Deputy ranks many a kid who was breaking boxcar seals, stealing motorcycles, robbing service stations...
...good, because it took away the idea that this war was any different than what we had been trained for. You can't kid the infantry; they know they've got to go in and do the fighting; and Bradley was an ex-infantryman. It inspired confidence...