Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barrage lifted; the troops started across the dark, swirling water in rubber and wooden assault boats, ducks, alligators, amphibious tanks. Some boats were smashed by enemy fire, others by plastic mines floated downstream by the Germans, and still others were wrecked by iron spikes and barbed wire set under water. But many boats got safely across...
Since the dirt surface in Briggs Cage was tarred over last year to serve as basketball courts for the various Navy and Army training units, Tootell had to do his practice tossing on the hard surface with a heavy, india-rubber shot. But under the daily training of Coach Mikkola, former mentor of Finnish Olympic track teams, he soon had the Boston scribes taking notice...
...Like the rubber billiard cue and the collapsible bicycle, the word Peoria has always been good for a laugh in vaudeville. Generations of hoofers and comedians used it to epitomize U.S. hick towns. But though Peoria, Ill. lies in the corn belt, it is a pretty big town (pop. 105,087). It is also a river town, and it grew up around a whiskey keg, not a cracker barrel. Last week, after a new city primary election, Peoria had occasion to remind itself of its free-&-easy tradition once again...
...aims of her . . . reborn power and greatness." In effect, the General told the Big Three that the Big Fourth reserved all rights in the Far Eastern colony seized by the Japs before Pearl Harbor. Indo-China-bigger than France, with a population of 23,000,000, rich in rice, rubber, tin and zinc-is the French Empire's most precious colony...
...Goodrich, the civilians promised not to shave until the drive was over, shaved absentee civilians on their return to work and cut their trousers off at the knee-signifying an ignominious return to boy status. Workers at the U.S. Rubber plant chipped in to form a $10,000 pool, to be divided among workers in departments with the highest "presenteeism" rate...