Word: shoo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attacked boat, seeing rifles, surrendered. A Partisan went aboard, ordered the prize to head for a small section of the coast which was held by Partisans. The Pioneer went after the next vessel, applied the same treatment. Two more were taken before one of the minesweepers arrived to shoo the now unarmed Pioneer away...
...Sunday, which may alter the situation . . . The Class Gift Committee has added another to the will and testament list. YOU may contribute by sending your donation to The Lucky Bag, specifying which particular type 3-minute-egg-timer you recommend . . . It may be spring, but the strains of Shoo Shoo Baby coming from Bingham's Office these days continue. Between "Bing's" crooning, and the newly founded DeHaas date bureau, Chase Roomers await the Robins...
...Browne's face when he came hurrying up with a home-town paper and picture concerning his brother, Jules, a member of the Naval Air Force who recently received the Distinguished Flying Cross...the tolerant, squinty smile on the face of the grim Ben. Stephens when he lost a shoo in radio engineering and called his stockinged foot while leaning on the aft bulkhead of Langdell (he couldn't double talk his way out of that one)...the spectacle of the artistic Bernie lange trying to teach his roommates the involved wigglings of the rhumba...the worried expression...
...Increased the list of nondeferrable occupations (newsboys, doormen, whiskey makers, etc.) to shoo such workers into war plants...
...Danish Physicist Valdemar Poulsen first suggested it 40-odd years ago. Last week U.S. commercial radio sound engineers adopted a "show me" attitude toward the Wire Recorder. But if Inventor Camras' machine turned out to have bugs in it, the Army felt certain he could shoo them...