Word: pooped
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...Navy was first to hack away. Before the Jap surrender offer had become poop-deck patter, it stopped construction of 95 ships, canceling contracts totaling $1.200,000,000. Halted in various stages of construction were the 45,000-ton battleship Illinois, the 27,100-ton carriers Iwo Jima and Reprisal, 20 heavy and light cruisers. (Still abuilding were 167 Navy ships, including one battleship, eleven aircraft carriers; still unanswered: what to do with the partly built battle hulls...
...Poop. Slangy and informal, Ted has a deceptively casual attitude toward "poop" (planning and paper work). When training in the desert for the Ploesti raid Colonel Ted used old five-gallon oilcans for filing cabinets. One day he startled the office staff by striding in with three cans, dropping them on the floor with a vast clatter, and saying simply, "There's the poop...
...planning conference he likes to spread maps on the floor and crawl over them to line up his objectives and make them clear to his crews. Last week when his promotion was announced, Ted was off in the blue somewhere. It seemed a reasonable, if unofficial, guess that the "poop" had been gathered together again, and the circus was again on its travels...
...stood it on the right wing and started down in a sweeping curve. There were three possible fields in sight, but we were too high and going too fast for the nearest one. The farthest was too tiny, surrounded by big, mean-looking trees, and we would have to poop over a highway and power lines...
...coast of the Caribbean island of Aruba, fringed with coral, into its deep port fringed with oil-storage tanks, moved two startling apparitions last week. Their shape was familiar, for Aruba has seen many a tanker. But the flags painted on their sides and flying at the poop were, of all flags, Italian...