Word: postcarder
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...During World War II, I was a member of a resistance group that opposed our participation in Hitler's war of aggression. For our anti-war propaganda we used, among other things, postcard reproductions of cartoons showing various pieces of war machinery in the shape of grotesque monsters. There was an immensely smug bomber chased by a ferocious little fighter, a dinosaur-like gun, a radio imp, and others...
...first comments on his new job that Publisher Sulzberger received was a postcard from an indignant subscriber: "I knew the Times would go to hell as soon as Mr. Ochs died. My name was spelled wrong in the paper this morning...
Behind all the hearts & flowers is Joyce C. Hall, 58, a lean and solemn man who started out, at 18, to become a greeting-card shark by selling postcard greetings in Kansas City. Rollie B. Hall, a brother, joined him there, but they soon realized that postcard greetings were losing favor. Said Joyce Hall: "We found we were developing a dying business." They switched to cards enclosed in envelopes, were soon so successful that they took in another brother, William F. Hall...
Chief Randall's office, however, aims to please, No efforts are spared in tracking down the owner of mislaid merchandise who is then notified of his carelessness through a polite postcard...
...week or so ago this newspaper reviewed one of the recent outburst of war movies, "Sands of Iwo Jima." We said the movie was trite and inaccurate. The next morning's mail promptly turned up a letter and a postcard, the second signed by "one who was there." Both claimed that the movie was realistic and therefore praiseworthy, mainly because it included clips from official Navy documentaries about the Pacific...