Word: sopped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long after the collapse of Germany, leather will probably be scarce: even the minimum Lend-Lease and UNRRA needs will sop up most of the expected drop in military demand. In 1943, long before much "rehabilitation" was militarily feasible, the Army shipped almost 9,000,000 pairs of shoes for Lend-Lease account...
...sentence on page 33 of B. J. M., our only consolation is in the prospect that future weekends may prove sufficiently interesting to make up for it . . . Glad to hear that Crawford has again joined the ranks as "one of the boys," time having convinced him that SOP aboard the Portland Rose is not, after all, an overly responsible position . . . With the arrival of 180 Apprentice Seamen Monday morning, we can expect a little new energy and a more clear explanation for the room mix-ups of the past two weeks. Coming directly from nearly 100 V-12 schools...
Recognition of the two men who ran the Marshalls show was also a sop to admirals at sea who would be more than likely to resent the promotions of three landbound rear admirals to three stars. The three, all capable bureau chiefs: bull-necked Ben Moreell (Yards and Docks); Ross T. Mclntire (Medicine); Randall Jacobs (Personnel...
...BOWLING BUYS A NEWSPAPER-Donald Henderson-Random House ($2). Mr. William Bowling is a slightly down-at-heel English "gentleman" who kills and kills and kills and never quite gets caught. Vivid, bizarre, well written and, except for a final sop to the angels, an engrossing exercise in amorality...
U.S.S. Eliot, Nov. 12 (SOP)--"Well, to Stott with," the Sage exclaimed as he washed down his bread and Buttner with another glass of Sherry, "it's going to be a Tufts time for Jawn to beat the Jumbos, but I know he will make it plenty Warren for them...