Word: spined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uniforms blossomed on all sides. Vogue ecstatically proclaimed: "This is our new life. This is what we have to do. . . . And whatever our duties are, one of the symbols of our new double-duty lives is the uniform. The uniform stands for our new spine of purpose, our initiative in getting women working, splayed out into hundreds of different jobs, to find talents which have been mossed over. It means that we know that it is time to stop all the useless little gestures, to stop being the Little Woman and be women...
...young talent in the city, get a city block from somewhere, give a tremendous musical, and gain fame, fortune, and Judy at the same time. We really couldn't say how it ends. We left in the middle of the city block scene, while Judy was singing a rousing spine-tingler that went, "Keep your chin up, Tommy Atkins, Cheerio, Carry on . . ." to the tune of "You Can Win Winsocki...
...same burning wish. Said one sailor: "Before this we didn't want to fight anybody. But now all we want is to get well enough to get our crack at those bastards." He did not yet know that a wound from a bomb splinter on his spine would never let him fight or walk again...
...underestimated, not only as to numbers but also as to ability. It had never occurred to the British that little men in shorts and gym shoes could actually filter through Malayan jungles. Japanese forces had apparently made contact all the way across the peninsula: even across the central mountain-spine. The middle jungles had previously been the domain of the dwarfish Sakai, a hairy, blow-gunning people who travelers say are so primitive that they have digits only up to two and count: one, two, many, many-many, many-many-many. The Japanese bribed savages to lead them through their...
...style by getting Cleveland citizens to build a million-dollar ice bowl with 10,000 red-white-&-blue seats, a spine-tingling organ, beer garden, fancy press box. Fellow leaguers followed suit. Today nine of the ten clubs in the American League are financially independent (though many have working agreements with the National League...