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...their close-order drill, the impressive torso power of their mass setting-up exercises. But it shows best in one chance shot of a nameless Marine, at liberty, decked out in blue & scarlet, sauntering along with the easy, uncoiled assurance of a fighting man who knows no one can lick...
...blacksmith's apprentice in Ireland, joined the U.S. Navy in 1890, the year he landed in the U.S. He began to hate the Japs back in 1901, when some Jap cops in Yokohama paddled him with the flat of their swords. "I've never forgotten that licking" he says. "It started smarting again when I heard about Pearl Harbor." To a Navy dentist brooding about his lack of teeth, he observed: "We're going to fight and lick the Japs, sir, but we're not going to eat them.'' The Navy took...
...used up six cans of potash. She wore a hole in the kitchen floor pursuing a stain. "I shall never have a greater devotion," said Author Rawlings, "than I had from this woman." Soon 'Geechee grew confidential. She explained her blind eye: "I disremember did I get the lick before they put me in the jailhouse or endurin' the time they was puttin' me in the jailhouse...
...Washington dateline, a report of a conversation between Secretary Knox and China's T. V. Soong. Said the dispatch: "In an effort to cheer up the Chinese statesman, Knox patted him on the back and said, 'That's all right, T. V., we'll lick those yellow devils...
...Those of us who can't fight can learn to make airplanes. Those of us who can't make airplanes can darn the airplane-makers' socks or cook their meals. Some of us can register those who are drafted. Some of us can answer telephones and lick stamps and run errands. Surely there is a place for everyone...