Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...posts of censorship, patrols, supplies, guarding, nursing, doctoring, evacuating, bandage-making....I watched half a dozen dogfights and saw at least two enemies downed....The Filipinos were good and spirited....Talking to already stubble-bearded, grimy Yank soldiers at undisclosed posts: "I'd like another crack at those low-flying bastards. Write my mother I'm a hero. I'll stay here. I'll stick it out."...Night sounds: howling dogs, shouts from sentries, douse that cigaret, turn off those lights, shrill police whistles, automobile backfires, the babble of Filipino and American voices...
...just yelled to the fellows to stay low, keep calm and keep firing....None of us were really excited after the first minutes when the bombers caught us. We were too busy-and it felt good to be firing....We just said:.'Get those bastards out of the air,' and we kept at it till we knew we'd run them off. After it was all over we knew we had stood up to them...
Last week this long-standing U.S. fear was laid low. The Latin American republics and Canada lined up solidly with the U.S. in a united anti-Axis front. After 118 years the Monroe Doctrine had become multilateral: the rest of the hemisphere had rallied to protect the U.S. as part of their hemisphere. Their decision, made not when victory was in immediate prospect, but in the face of an initial U.S. defeat, was an action which the U.S. would not soon forget...
...amount of durability when it comes to listening," the State Labor Department admitted that "at this point, however, the employment office would be willing to settle for an applicant who even approximates this description." Reason: war-boom labor shortage had reduced the supply of Santa Clauses to a "new low level...
...Bell-boys, despite their two-fold victory over Dunster 38 to 13 and Winthrop 31 to 25, rank a low fifth in the standings determined for the three House swim meets so far this season...