Word: sailorful
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...Democrats and Republicans simultaneously discovered that the other party is sending out campaign literature along with servicemen's ballots. At Miami, a sailor reported that his ballot was accompanied by a plea for the re-election of Michigan's Republican Governor Harry F. Kelly. At Guadalcanal, a soldier opened his ballot, found a letter from Chicago's Democratic Mayor Edward J. Kelly, urging him to vote for Franklin Roosevelt. The two Kellys reacted differently. Governor Kelly denied everything; Mayor Kelly announced that he had sent, not one, but 150,000 letters. "It's legal," he explained...
Ella Shake pined for her sailor husband. He had married her in 1942 in Honolulu. Then he had been sent across the Pacific and she, like other Navy wives, had been shipped back to the States...
...that up to Congress. "General of the Armies" is held sacred to ailing, 84-year-old John J. Pershing, for whom the title was created by special Act. "Marshal" is a title to which George Marshall might personally object. "Admiral of the Fleet" might do for a five-star sailor...
Wright, in winning his seventh victory of the campaign without a loss, established himself as the loop's top flinger, and his baffling combination of curves and fast balls had the Lowell batsmen off balance. The tall sailor, who pitched the C team to a pennant in softball last July, struck out 13 batters in a superlative pitching exhibition...
...Felicie Giacobbi, walking down a street in Algiers where three U.S. soldiers and a sailor were playing catch, was hit in the face by a ball. Award: $47.50. (But the Army chalked up an error to the Navy, asked the Navy...