Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pierre Laval did not laugh. He knew that ballyhooing Pétain would not win over the French people as long as their country was ground under the Nazi boot. He knew that all France's workers could not sate Hitler's rapacious appetite. If Hitler won, Laval would probably disappear, like Austria's Schuschnigg, in favor of a German Gauleiter. If the Allies won, Laval could expect to be hanged at least, possibly drawn & quartered by Frenchmen...
Fauna & Flora. The most exotic feature of the islands is the bird life. Americans get a laugh out of the gony bird for a while. Then he is a plain nuisance. Frigate birds are scoundrels who make a living by snatching food out of other birds' beaks. The sooty tern lays its eggs on the ends of broken limbs of the breadfruit tree. On one island there is a lone rooster. His morning crowing to high heaven wakes up the whole island-that is how big this atoll is. He makes the farm boys homesick...
...only from the platform to the front row for the professor. For among the officers of the Faculty is one of his former students, and he, of course, requires a salute from his ex-teacher when on Harvard grounds. As a matter of fact, the ex-student has another laugh on his ex-adviser...
While you (very properly) castigate and laugh at our rabble-rousing, gallus-snappin', education-proof, nigger-baitin' . . . Gene Talmadge, thank you for not letting the nation forget that Georgia has given to the Senate one of its most distinguished statesmen, Walter George. Don't let them forget, please, that the President tried to "purge" Walter George. And failed...
Nights, however, are pleasantly cool- one-blanket weather. Food is passable: almost all of it comes from cans. There is no food obtainable in New Guinea beyond a few paw paws, bananas and coconuts. Supply officers still laugh grimly over the suggestion from headquarters that they supplement rations by buying in the open market. The food problem is aggravated because the soldiers won't eat mutton. "These boys simply won't touch sheep," says the exasperated mess officer who watches supplies of mutton pile...