Word: shacking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lexicon of Brillat-Savarin, world-renowned gourmet, there is no such word as grits,* But in the U.S. South, from plantation mansion to tenant shack, grits has been part of a way of life for generations. Many Southerners eat grits with every meal, few understand why Yankees find it insipid...
Burly, silent, broody Jack Belden (TIME & LIFE) boiled on to the beaches near Gela with an amphibian force and, when the front line had been moved far enough inland, sat down at a headquarters shack to bat out some copy. German tanks were lobbing shells overhead against landing craft on the beach. An officer hurried in: "Tanks are two miles from headquarters! What's the use of writing a story when you may be captured in a few minutes...
...Assam fighter base has a pigeon, Tokyo, which lives in the alert shack...
...That's Nowack," the operators say to the men in the shack, or "that's Carlton. Ought to be around tomorrow." And they follow the plane's progress around the country because it is carrying supplies and mail...
...poker, which he plays with a sometimes wild abandon, betting, according to his wife, "on anything." But at Souk-el-Spaatz, he plays less & less. His habitual tension has increased. Recently he wrote to Mrs. Spaatz: "I'm looking forward to the day when we can reoccupy our shack . . . own a boat on the Potomac and float up & down on the tide." The "shack" is the comfortable, 133-year-old home in Alexandria which Tooey bought one week before...