Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left convinced the world wasn't really such an awful place. Even if the men who made up the examinations weren't bubbling over with the milk of human kindness there are others who care! Take our Instructor, for instance. We're sure he cares. We all felt very sad at saying goodbye to him last week, even though he'll be back for the last two days of our course...
Cross word puzzles, short wave radio programs, games, notes entitled Strictly G.I., a cartoon strip "Sad Sack," and a column of letters (only opening for officer contributions) are by now popular features. Special editions on the Air Force and the Navy have been printed, and special praise has been extended vigorous officers like Uncle Joe Stilwell and Major General Gerhardt, who is photographed shirtless, riding a horse through a raging stream. Maps, scarce and in great demand overseas, are now printed in every issue; and a service of advice and features like Milt Caniff's "Male Call" is sent...
Cross word puzzles, short wave radio programs, games, notes entitled Strictly G.I., a cartoon strip "Sad Sack," and a column of letters (only opening for officer contributions) are by now popular features. Special editions on the Air Force and the Navy have been printed, and special praise has been extended vigorous officers like Uncle Joe Stilwell and Major General Gerhardt, who is photographed shirtless, riding a horse through a raging stream. Maps, scarce and in great demand overseas, are now printed in every issue; and a service of advice and features like Milt Caniff's "Male Call" is sent...
...story of a happy family in a small town in wartime. It is William Saroyan saying that life is not only worth living, fighting and dying for, but can be an almost unmitigated pleasure. As Mrs. Macauley tells her son Homer, if the world seems to a man "richly sad and full of beauty, it's the man himself so, and not the things around him. And so it is, if it's bad, or ugly, or pathetic -it is always the man himself, and each man is the world...
...history of this sad tale is, briefly: The men of Company 1, having purchased only one pair of pants with their uniform, put on that one pair to go on liberty the week-end before they heard they had been selected to come to Harvard. The turned in their undress bell- bottoms the first of that following week and remained clad in their sole pair of dress trousers. The still...