Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beer at Harry's, or ride or sit in any vehicle except a bicycle. Lounging up & down Franklin Street, they have but one thought: to get through and done with Chapel Hill, get on to Primary, Intermediate, and Operational Training Stations, toward the fine day when they lift a Hellcat or a Corsair off a carrier...
Inexhaustible, Hope piles job on job -work, which originally meant the path to glory, has become an end, a need, a form of excitement in itself. His camp tours, by putting him under incredible pressure, have given him an enormous lift. Pleased that he is first in the hearts of the service men, he can hardly wait to be off to the South Pacific. "When the war ends," Hope confesses freely, "it'll be an awful let-down...
Solid Proposition. In Sedro-Woolley, Wash., J. E. Minster advertised in the Courier-Times: "FOR SALE-George, our pig. . . . Don't know what he weighs, but I can only lift one end of him at a time. . . . He sits down to meals. By mistake he has been fed laying mash and commercial fertilizer and once Portland cement. All seem to agree with...
...year, for the Naval Supply School has put a waterproof cover over Cazenove and Pomeroy dorms and no little droplets can get in. So it will be close quarters for the little adorables this year and no single rooms, poor things, but a droplet is a droplet, boys, so lift your fingers high and catch...
...France, artillery fire went down 200 yards ahead of troops, who crept within 100 yards waiting for it to lift before attacking. Occasional shorts were inevitable, and infantry learned to expect 2% casualties from its own supporting artillery. Foot soldiers' traditional greeting to artillerymen was two raised fingers, like Winston Churchill's "V" signal...