Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long." Jimmie Davis campaigned mostly by plugging his own sad ballads, moving around the state with his five-man hillbilly band, usually talking less than ten minutes before he went into his act. He sang and moved on, and the Bayou citizens remembered the music and something about low taxes...
...destroyers swung broadside to the low-lying coast and sounded a compelling reveille with the barking of their 5-in. guns. Boats crowded with green-clad men crawled like bugs toward the shore. This was no landing on an enemy beach saturated by bombardment; success this time depended on surprise...
...following advice, now immortal; "Don't worry, boys, don't worry." And that is sound advice, as sound when Dean Smith first gives it to you as it will be on the day you be bilged. You'll get used to soft-boiled eggs, to Standard "Erl", to low passes and peanut wagons, to "arrears" of figures, Morgan 3, and Boston lasses; after all, it's only four months till the wife and the stripe...
...Your fire is 1,000 feet too low...
...Japs, who didn't know what the phrase meant but quickly gathered that its use brought cigarets, learned it phonetically and chanted it endlessly, bowing low and grinning toothily while their captors nodded approval and complimented the prisoners on the excellence of their delivery of those honorable sentiments...