Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Field Director Thomas S. Montgomery could hardly miss being nicknamed "Tiny"-he stands 6 ft. 8 ½ in., weighs a whopping 275 Ib. Too oversized to enlist, he squeezed his bulk into a Red Cross uniform, soon became noted on Guadalcanal for his frontline chant: "Chewing gum, candy, popcorn, soda pop. What'll you have, boys?" Wandering about the jungle alone, Montgomery recently met a group of marines. Said he: "Aren't we pretty close to the front lines now, fellows?" Said a marine: "Front lines, hell. They're half a mile behind us. This...
...News Chronicle: "The Prime Minister is hardly likely to be what doctors call a good patient." Britons envisaged "Winnie" wan but resplendent in the cream silk pajamas he loves. They imagined him resenting his confinement, glowering at the doctors, harassing the nurses, worrying over state affairs, demanding a Scotch & soda, trying to bribe attendants to bring him a cigar...
...Soda Hardens Arteries. "Conrad had no use for small talk, but always saw to it that a definite theme qualified the conversation. He cared little for politics, and slightly despised politicians. . . . He was an opponent of British Imperialism. . . . He did not like Socialism-I suppose because sailors were not Socialists in his time." In foreign politics, "he had one horror-of Russia; and no definite idea, unless good wishes for the independence of Poland." He shared Retinger's "myopia to music," and liked to listen to stories of personal adventure, though he rarely spoke...
...best to read diaries and memoirs, infinitely more than fiction or history." He had "the Slav love for long, intimate talk." They used to sit by the fire "until 2 or 3 in the morning, sipping whiskey, which he always took with plain water, advising me never to take soda, as it hardens arteries...
Civilians must have 79.1% of 1941's toothbrushes-but only 35.1% of dentifrices (salt and bicarbonate of soda, said Joe Weiner, are just-as-good substitutes). They could do with 58.3% of packaged medicines but not without 107.2% of sanitary napkins ("with women entering industry to a greater extent, it is not possible to revert to improvised methods and materials"). They required no paper facial tissues but 92.1% of toilet paper. (The report said its use "has increased considerably since...