Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catching the student body outside the mess hall, the aviator unleaded runners reading: "Sports columnist predicts Holy Cross defeat. We'll back him up on Saturday...
...James dwellers went methodically back to creating expressions of spirit as "we'll crack concrete with the Crimson" following the hint of Coach John "Ox" DaGrosa...
...freight office at Frankfurt, Private, Siedentopf and his fragile burden waited in vain while airport officials waved a bill for $130 freight charges. "Can't I send it C.O.D.?" asked the G.I. The answer was no. "Oh, well, then just store it. I'll be back." Into the storeroom went the box. After an uncomfortable 24 hours, restless Gitte, clad in bra and pants, found herself face to face with the dumbfounded airline official. "It was hot in there," she said simply...
...Texan. He can quote Wordsworth or Shelley at length-but he is also a he-man who once ran a 250,000-acre ranch. At the University of Texas, where he has taught for 28 years, Dobie likes to be called Professor Pancho. His lecture preambles-"Now, I'll tell you a little story of Liver-Eating Johnson . . ."-have delighted thousands of students. He refused to move into the new skyscraperish university tower. "It looks like a toothpick in a pie," he said, and opened an office in the oldest building on the campus...
...minor branches of the Armed Forces. These include the "musical comedy Marines . . . in the Pacific"; the Navy which "sits around . . . eating steak three times a day fried in butter," and the Army which is stalling the war along "until a Ground Forces officer receives the surrender. They'll cheat us [the Air Forces] out of it. Well, by God, we won't leave a sucking soul alive in Germany to surrender! That's what we'll do!" His hand reaches for a desk button and presses it, and Jones...