Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That [U.S. midshipmen on summer cruise] were "downy-cheeked" and the younger brothers of wartime servicemen came as a distinct surprise ... to the men (numbering greater than 50%) who saw wartime service with one or more of the four services; to those who resigned themselves to shaving their "downy cheeks" seven or eight years ago and have for the last three or four years been grimly viewing a receding hairline...
...After lunch there, as we passed the harbor, we saw all the ships gaily hung with bunting. We inquired what was happening and were told that there would be a procession out to sea; so we got into a vessel and went along. As we returned, we saw the people on the piers first jeering, then cheering, and the fishermen broke into a song to the Madonna. I asked a fisherman, 'What's going on now?' and he explained that Fiumicino's new clock had just been inaugurated and that they had had 'a terrible...
...Murray Bay, Quebec, where he is vacationing, Ohio's solemn Bob Taft got ready for his test swing through the Far West in mid-September, a serious undertaking in which Scripps-Howard's H. M. Talburt saw some humorous overtones...
...faces was clouted with an umbrella, several handbags, and a high-heeled shoe. But the Legionnaires welcomed competition with disconcertingly uproarious laughter, went right on gulping from pint bottles, dropping water bags and emitting an odd war cry: "Hya, Queenie, Queenie, Queenie-best old dog you ever saw...
...movie leans over backward to be fair to the industry, which insists on making such an indifferent case for itself. Such debatable blessings as America's Town Meeting of the Air and the scripting efforts of Norman Corwin are duly acknowledged, a fair proof of the old saw that in the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. Such likable veterans as Jack Benny, Fibber & Molly, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen and Fred Allen are respectfully saluted. The news commentators are cursorily lumped on the credit side and so is the fact that radio lavishes millions each...