Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gissimo meant when they said this week that "serious and prolonged operations" would be necessary (see p. 32). Chennault's hatred of the Jap is deep and fierce. He broods over his hard task, listens sympathetically when his officers say: "The way to kill flies is to pour gasoline on maggots where they breed. Flyswatter stuff isn't going to win the war." Chennault knows that maggots breed within the great cities of Japan, and that the only place from which they may now be reached is China. But he smiles his hawk's smile and says...
...Have the patron pour his own-it is a psychological fact that the average customer will fill his glass to nowhere near the brim and be perfectly contented...
...psychopathic strain in the old Austin High School crowd, which included Jimmy and Rich MacUartland, Bud Freeman, Floyd O'Brien, Frank Teschemacher, and allied members such as Dave Hough, Jess Stacy, Gene Krupa, Joe Sullivan, Muggsy Spanier, and Mezz Mezzrow. For instance, Tesch married a gal who used to pour nothing but straight gin on her corn flakes...
...boats, jostling and bumping, while destroyers fired arching red balls ashore. Then the red balls seemed to bounce back, and we realized with horror that the Japs were thoroughly awakened and were returning fire. The jungle remained inviolate, as though it could soak up all the fire we could pour...
...week husky, homespun R. J. Thomas, head of C.I.O.'s powerful United Automobile Workers, invaded Texas to test the law. In the little oil town of Pelly, he hoisted his 240 lb. to a platform, made an organizing speech while workers encouraged him with traditional Texas yells of "Pour it on 'em." Deputy Sheriff W. B. Milner whispered to Thomas' publicity man that "it wouldn't count" unless Thomas made a direct appeal to an individual. The publicity man passed up a note to his boss. Said he: "It's getting damned hard...