Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy men say that Dr. Sablan did "a great job" in spite of dwindling food supplies and the lack of drugs-he has a knack for keeping villages immaculate, the greatest public-health safeguard. As he has not been paid in three years, his Army and Navy friends are now trying to get an appropriation...
After the capture of Rome the 100th was joined by its recently trained counterpart, the 442nd Combat Team, also Japanese-Americans. Both units are exceptionally popular in the Fifth Army, have a wonderful knack for organizing little comforts, cooking up tasty un-Army dishes...
This, of course, brings up the question of how I'm able to dash off a column for the A-L boys. Frankly, it's a knack multiple endeavor is relatively easy for an old newspaperman (I quit the racket in 1939, when the bottom fell out of the price of old newspapers). The facility remains: I can fall out on the double for reveille in my bare feet, putting on my GI shoes as I run down the stairs. I lace 'em up, too--living as I do on the fourth floor, I have plenty of time...
Cobb has the knack of keeping one eye on a temperamental diner, one on the ledger. As a showman, he is beyond surprise. To one eccentric but steady patron, Bob Cobb's waiters always served, without blinking, a dish of spongecake, smothered in catsup. Says President Cobb, reminiscently: "You can do nearly anything you want with the public...
...even whether he had one); many a man successful in private business has sunk in bureaucracy's quicksands. But they did know that Ep Hoyt, the up-from-the-ranks editor and publisher of the popular Portland Oregonian is patient, smart, has a rare knack of making and keeping friends. They felt sure that, given half a chance, he could click...