Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ukraine, factories, collective farms changed their names to Budenny. The grey peaked cloth hat which used to be part of the Red Army uniform is called Budennovka. Among men who knew horses he became the incarnation of horsemanship, something approaching the upper half of a Centaur. Red cavalrymen sing...
...Marquesas Islands, the oldest people sing "prediction songs," They saw the Fahnestocks' first ship (a 65-ft. schooner), then the second, which they declared was the first one grown up. They sang a prediction that it would go away and never return...
...years I got over that stupidity, and always thereafter he was the chief and most entertaining personage. As a table companion he could not beat. To hear him sing the balled of the Three Ravons climaxed the evening...
...there was a difference. The annual day-long parade had more zip, more color, more of a grim military note. Men gathered in hundreds to sing God Bless America, and some of them wept. From the sidewalks they shouted "To hell with Hitler." The spirit was the old spirit: "What son-of-a-bitch, or combination of sonsofbitches, thinks he can lick us?" World War II had wrought a great change. Legion membership rose 20,000 in 1939; 25,000 more in 1940; 30,000 more this year...
...rebellious Norway Kirsten Flagstad told reporters she was staying there by choice, to be with her family. She has refused to sing publicly. // Sally Rand turned up two hours and 15 minutes late for a personal appearance at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., found 13,800 soldiers had gone off to bed. // Canadian Air Marshal William A. ("Billy") Bishop's son, Arthur, 18, enlisted in the R.C.A.F. // Robert Hopkins, 20, son of Harry Hopkins by his first wife, volunteered for a year's Army service, with the O.K. of both his divorced parents. // Millionaire Private Paul Mellon waived...