Word: loring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the cadets watched, officers demonstrated some lore of survival. One found a swampy spot, dug up the edible roots of cattails. Another showed how to twist a fish line from tough inner bark, whittle a hook from a thorned twig. A third whacked out a four-foot section of wild grapevine which dripped a cupful of clear water, surprisingly sweet and cool to the taste...
Hough in Denver is a veteran newspaperman who has reported for TIME on a part-time basis ever since 1932. He is the author of two books on Rocky Mountain lore-headed the Colorado Writers Project which prepared a monumental local history of the state-has also lived in Wyoming, Montana and New Mexico, visited every state from the Missouri to the Pacific. And in Seattle TIME'S Paul O'Neil has covered practically every big story that has broken in the Pacific Northwest in ten years-says his newshunting has "taken him to every hamlet...
...Council of Philadelphia. Clerics and educators set up the Council at the request of ex-Director Milton Stover Eisenhower (brother of the General) of the U.S. War Relocation Authority. Council finances come from private sources. Council director is white-haired, 66-year-old Carlisle V. Hibbard, who has Japanese lore (he spent a decade in Tokyo, a year in Jap-held Manchuria) and relocation experience (he worked with World War I prisoners of war). Assistant Secretary of War John Jay McCloy sees in the Council a way to "compensate loyal citizens of Japanese ancestry for the dislocation ... by reason...
WAFS get military drill (at which they excel men), learn meteorology, navigation and other pilots' lore, wear coveralls while flying and, in general, are "processed" like men. But there are some variations. Example: Avenger's pin-neat barracks have walls of Nile green and white. The cream-colored lockers, where cosmetics and pink underthings are discreetly kept, are locked with hasps tastefully pegged with pink golf tees...
They and Their Pals. To be amphibious-that was the basic Commando requirement. On Britain's coast, selected soldiers merged the lore of the Royal Navy with their own. They learned how to "get in and out of a small boat in all kinds of weather"; to swim, fully equipped, holding their firearms above water; to know about mortars, anti-tank rifles, high explosives. They also had to learn the double lesson of cooperation, individual initiative. Each man was encouraged "to do everything with a friend"-fall in beside him, handle the magazine of his Bren gun, scout with...