Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mate Rationing. In India's Sind Prov ince a 500-rupee ceiling on dowries produced its inevitable economic effect: a black market in bridegrooms...
...paused for a few seconds in a gateway to take pictures, and because of the noisy barrage was not aware that I was blocking the way for three Bren carriers until the driver of one tapped me politely on the shoulder and shouted: "Excuse me, mate-but there's a war on, yer know...
...many heroes of the day was Machinist's Mate Robert R. Scott, whose station was below decks at an air-compressing machine supplying the 5-inch guns of the California. A torpedo blast ruptured his compartment, and oil and water began to pour in. Scott's companions got out. Scott yelled: "I'll stay here and give them air as long as the guns are going." They closed the door on his compartment to save the rest of the ship from being flooded. Scott stayed and supplied air to clear the gun barrels until he was drowned...
...tough, lusty What Price Glory?, the best American play about World War I. The Streets Are Guarded, a play about World War II, tells a fuzzy story about a heroic marine who pulls off a perilous sortie against the Japs. With a fever-ridden fanatically religious pharmacist's mate acting as Greek chorus, it seems throughout to symbolize a modern miracle. But what it says at the end is that such "miracles" are the everyday stuff of soldiering...
...because last week-end was the first liberty that we've had in months was no reason for the police to make us call in every five minutes. Geo, we read the papers, too. By the way, have you had a Cowle Cocktail. For particulars see the pharmacist's mate...