Word: podunk
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...gallant troopers fought them off with bayonets, rifle butts, knives, even fists and feet. The Reds seemed to have no taste for this sort of combat and retreated across the Naktong with heavy casualties, but they came back to fight again near Waegwan (called "Wigwam," "Waukeegan," or "Podunk" by G.I.s), twelve miles northwest of Taegu. Twice the G.I.s were driven from the top of Hill 303 made infamous by the war's worst atrocity (see War Crimes), but they scrambled back up. As Gay's men dug in on top of Hill 303 for the third time...
character labels: Austin from Boston, fluke from Dubuque, groan from Bayonne, keeno from Reno, leery from Erie, mute from Butte, noisy from Boise, pester from Chester, skunk from Podunk, trixie from Dixie...
With its selection of the Man of the Year and its story on "Report from the World," it has raised the hope of this Mainstreeter from Podunk to its highest ebb since the era of Wendell Willkie's "One World...
...Colleges estimated that smaller colleges could absorb an extra 250,000 students. So far, 41% of all back-to-school G.I.s had packed into 38 schools, largely ignoring 712 other fully accredited colleges. In some cases the G.I. was only guilty of trying for the best-why go to Podunk College, when the Government will send you to Yale? But others had a better reason: they wanted training in trades or professions which small liberal arts colleges were not equipped to teach...
...have to . . . ask the doctor or dentist to go to Podunk. He may have to give up an established practice in Brooklyn to do this. The three doctors who left Podunk may say it is a hell of a note to put us in uniform and then turn our practice over to a stranger who will be too well established when we return for us to get back our former patients...