Word: marooned
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...erect, well-dressed girls drawn up for parade. In the clammy English dawn, she saw WACs in maroon bathrobes (with boy friends' unit insignia sewn on their sleeves) dashing from tin barracks and scuttling across the mud-heading for the "ablution hut" to start the day with a shivery washup...
SANDERS THEATRE, Nov. 19 (VP)--"Shea, I really heard a good one, Boyce," Huey stammered as he finished another tankard of Cahill. "It's rumored the Maroon and Gould's gonna play the Crimson if Jawn'll Lennon a few men. Just the same we'll Slater them and toss them into that bucket O'Brien...
...almost looked like two Harvard teams out there during the game, since, in addition to wearing the home team's white jerseys (Worcester's maroon would have been confusing), Coach Paul Stagg had his men doing a lot of things generally associated with Crimson elevens...
...this, nonsmoking, teetotaling Alden Roach has time to play tennis on his own court beside his big white Monterrey-style home in fashionable San Marino. He collects ships' models, thinks up nicknames for his two children (currently called Punch & Judy), whirls visitors through the shipyards in a maroon Lincoln. But what he enjoys most is contemplating Consolidated's whopping backlog of $480,261,000 (including seven types of ships and 4-to-5-in. naval ack-ack guns) and thinking up tricks to chew that backlog up faster...
When Ed Stettinius left the stand, his trim dark suit was unwrinkled, his sober maroon tie unrumpled, his white handkerchief still in place in his breast pocket. A new Gallup poll showed 82% of U.S. citizens in favor of Lend-Lease, only 9% opposed. Renewal by Congress appeared to be a mere formality. Not until the Administration's reciprocal trade treaties come up for renewal would its "international" policies be challenged by Congress...