Word: pontiac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Relax. In Pontiac, Mich., the State Barbers Association passed a resolution deploring the practice of reading in barber chairs, explained that concentration on literature tends to stiffen the reader's neck...
...warm, lazy Saturday afternoon, marred only by the gentle purrings of busy typewriters until Cross and Crowtner breezed up with those two young ladies in the Pontiac. For two sweet things who were merely "looking for a fellow in D-46," they certainly got to know the regiment. It must have been their "C" card...
American Story has produced some interesting effects. One was a contemporary account of the 1763 defeat of Pontiac and his Indians by a Swiss Colonel named Henri Bouquet at the Battle of Bushy Run. Wrote the Provost of the College of Philadelphia at the time: "Those who have only experienced the severities and dangers of a campaign in Europe, can scarcely form an idea of what is to be done and endured in an American war. . . . In an American campaign everything is terrible; the face of the country, the climate, the enemy. There is no refreshment for the healthy...
...Infantry Flees. Tanks within the town hugged the buildings to escape German shelling. One Sherman was hit and set afire beside an outpost building with one room intact. Privates Tony de Meo (Brooklyn) and Fred Ratcliff (Pontiac, Mich.) sweated as the tank's 75-mm. shells began to explode just outside the room. Then they vaulted from the window and dashed to safety with snipers' bullets pinging through the air around them...
Reason for all this was that a U.S. patrol had captured the command post. The invitation to enter was shouted by its commander Lieut. Paul M. Koerner of Pontiac, 111. Der Herr Hauptmann was in a ravine outside, quite dead...