Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With scouts before and bombers galore Nothing'll stop the Army Air Corps!* > The Infantry song is still: The Infantry, the Infantry with dirt behind their ears, The Infantry, the Infantry, they drink up all the beers, The Cavalry, Artillery, and Corps of Engineers, They couldn't lick the Infantry in a hundred thousand years. > Last song in the Army book, first when the columns are marching, is still You're in the Army Now. > Unfit to print for the 1941 Army was Mad'moiselle from Armentières. Soldiers with a yen for back-room...
...Glancy, an ex-Du Pont Republican with patriotic urge to lick his terrific job, has an act for people who ask: "How are we doing?" In the top right-hand drawer of his desk is a tight roll of paper six inches wide. To explain this gadget he huddles with visitors and unrolls the end of the paper. There are the years and opposite them black bars representing the money that Army Ordnance has had to spend. The black bars through the '20's and '30's are about as long as a finger nail...
Last week, in his 1,049th game with the Detroit Tigers, 30-year-old Hank Greenberg smashed out two home runs, drove in a third run to lick the New York Yankees 7-to-4, then turned in his uniform. Next morning, in an old corset factory in downtown Detroit, Henry Greenberg, baseball's highest-paid player ($55,000 a year), was inducted into the U.S. Army along with 300 other Detroit draftees...
...McDaniels, Happie Willsie, and Joe "Clarion" Hamilton. He returned to his room late Sunday evening after a long bull session with Harry "Alligator" Munroe '43 on the double-tonguing and the comparative merits of the French horn in Tallahassee style and played through his album, soaking in each hot lick, until three in the morning...
Differences. In World War I, the British did lick the submarine menace. After the terrible losses (394,700 tons) of April 1917, the worst month of unrestricted submarine warfare, the convoy system was devised. And it worked. Of all the British ships convoyed across the Atlantic in 1917 and 1918, 99.08% reached their destinations safely. Destroyers learned how to spot and sink U-boats. By the end of the war, destroyers and their depth charges had reduced the rate of sinkings by 71%. The striking difference between this record and that of World War II is the result of strikingly...