Word: shankses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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U.S. plenipotentiaries have had trouble with sartorial protocol since the days of Benjamin Franklin. When Minister Franklin appeared before the King of France in plain brown velvet knee breeches he was called uncouth. When Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes refused to expose his shanks to the Court of St. James'...
Colonel William C. Lee, commander of Fort Benning's Provisional Parachute Group, was puzzled when he found five of his hard-bitten parachute soldiers begging for a ride in an Army airplane. He questioned the paratroopers, found that for all their flights they had never been in an airplane...
The Tatuta Maru was a symbol of the recoil the U.S. would have to brace itself for if President Roosevelt chose to fire his new economic weapon. The U.S. last season got only 18% of its silk from China and other minor sources, all the rest (273,711 bales) from...
They had to learn to use machetes, cut their trails through matted tree and vine. They packed tents, food, guns, building materials, ammunition into the steaming wastes by boat, truck, muleback, and shanks' mare. They slashed down forests, cut away hilltops and hillsides to make sites for their guns...
The Emperor Jones is no tyrant. Mr. Shanks's principals got a fair shake too: for each old $1,000 bond, a $500 general mortgage bond, $500 in new Class A stock, four shares of common and $35 in cash (as back interest on each new $1,000 bond...