Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life with the Berigans. In Omaha, when the F. A. Berigans' dog, Bozo, got his foot and tail caught in a hay mower, Frank Berigan jumped over a fence to help him, cut himself on one knee, hit himself in the eye with the other; sister Pat ran out of the house, slipped, sprained her wrist; Mrs. Berigan, startled as she was canning, sprained her finger; and Champ, another Berigan dog, jumped over the barn door and broke his foot...
...erecting a Cargill office building in Omaha, Danish-accented Chris Jensen made so much profit on the job by his construction short cuts that Cargill hired him to put his tricks to work for them...
Dorothy McGuire at 25 looks so precisely like the sort of Middlewestern middle-class girl you might see crossing any Eastern campus because that is exactly what she is. Daughter of an Omaha lawyer, isolated in her early teens first by her parents' divorce and then her father's tragic death, she was educated in an Indianapolis convent school and at Pine Manor Junior College at Wellesley, Mass...
...Omaha, 23% were BBC faithfuls, liked the newscasts, wanted to know more about British customs, British reaction to our war effort, British labor...
...Maybe he sells cigarets-back in Omaha. But he goes over like a lead balloon with the boys who have SEEN Guada, Buna and the north Tunisian coast. And a lot of guys who have been wearing the same socks for a month could cheerfully throttle the copywriters who created...