Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their lighter moments they build swank officers' messes in the deep jungles with handsome bars and flagged terraces (to the envy of the hard-living Army). In the South Pacific they laid out golf courses, constructed baseball diamonds, volleyball courts and movie amphitheaters. On Tulagi, Chief Machinist Mate Bernard M. Vinck hung out three coconuts for a pawnshop sign, began making "Tulagi Academy" rings, like the cherished Naval Academy rings-except that Vinck's were snail shell "cat's eyes" set in aluminum stripped from shot-down Jap planes...
...casualties have been few. Boatswain's Mate Henry Trongone, manufacturer of women's coats, fell overboard one day but was quickly fished out. Mr. Trongone and the contents of his pockets, $1,200 in bills, were spread out in the galley...
...running mate must be no political hack but a man of the same quality and character. Happily he is at hand. Eric A. Johnston, the most progressive president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in its history, who by his vision, breadth and ability has made an impression upon the world far beyond our borders...
...Thurber's simpler secrets is the dismaying fact that the maddest laughter is often provoked by no laughing matter. Thus, one twin-bedded, book-reading wife asks of her mate, in the other bed: "What the hell ever happened to the old-fashioned love story?" Again, five assorted Thurber dogs group themselves on a grassy bank to watch a family of human beings pass: "There go the most intelligent of all animals." One of Thurber's masterpieces carries no caption at all. A simple drawing which out-surrealizes a whole school of artists, it shows a lone...
Avenger will shortly have a running-mate, a Vought-designed Torpedo-plane made by Consolidated Vultee. Already in production, it shows promise of even better performance, but airmen are withholding final judgment until the new craft, called Seawolf, gets its test in battle...