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...most farm women the biggest challenge of patriotism will be to do what they are already doing-only to do it better. An extra dozen eggs may be more vital than knitting an extra sweater or an ill-fitting sock...
Virtenentes. These are unattractive except for a smile, but hold their men better and longer than either of the two preceding types. They go about with one sock up and one sock down, hair uncombed, but pretend to be devoutly interested in whatever interests the boy-friend, such as pinball, economic statistics, or how he told off the dean...
Striptease. In New Hampton, Iowa, a farmer wearing a suit of underwear, a shirt, jacket, two pairs of overalls, a pair of socks, a pair of shoes, and a hat stepped too close to his soybean harvester. He was left with hat, shoes, one sock...
...discussion, perhaps because it is political dynamite. A hotbed of isolationism, this section is not likely to support enthusiastically a full-scale war; yet when the war is over its people will presumably be asked to submit to a trade-pact tariff-lowering policy, which they feel is a sock at their bread-basket. And what steps are being taken against the post-war flames of hate which make any sane treatment of a defeated enemy impossible? Lastly, is there any hope that Congress will knife through political morass and public let-George-do-it-iveness to solve the problem...
...patients in person. He prescribed for the distant sick by listening to a description of their symptoms, then smelling and tasting shirts, brassières, girdles or any other apparel that had been in contact with the afflicted anatomy. Once Tupá Mbaé investigated a man's sock and correctly diagnosed hookworm, only to learn that the patient was not worried about his hookworm but about his undetected tuberculosis...