Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paraphrase Professor Hanson's quotation by Westbrook Pegler on Eleanor's solution to the plight of the white-collar worker, "What the white collar worker needs is a good laundry." Along this same line it is interesting to watch our room-mate struggle through his washing every Monday afternoon. He never can seem to get his paper collars to come out as well as his Kleenex does...
...merchant seamen, whose casualty rate has been five times that of the armed forces, have had to depend for medical care on the captain (or first mate) and his medicine kit. Last week the Maritime Service announced that the purser* will henceforth be the "ship's doctor...
When orders came to abandon ship, few were prompt to obey. "Yes, sir," mumbled the Negro mess attendants manning an antiaircraft gun; they kept on firing. A19-year-old steward's mate with a broken leg dragged himself back to his post with them. Only when two planes had been shot down and the decks were awash did the men jump into the oily...
Victor Mature, Hollywood handsome who is now a chief bosun's mate, arrived in Manhattan with a Coast Guard musical show, Tars and Spars. Long known as a "beautiful hunk of man," he was pleased to report that "the Coast Guard fellows changed it to 'beautiful hunk of junk...
...bandwagon. Heretofore, Ohio's Bricker was generally understood to have inherited the support of the South's "kept" Republican delegations which Ohio's Taft acquired in 1940. Some political dopesters now concluded that Warren had everything that was coming to him, that Dewey's running mate will turn out to be John Bricker-who is now the only candidate, Republican or Democratic, who has thrown his hat into the ring and jumped after...