Word: spits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mechanized outfit the ist Cavalry Division left Fort Bliss in 1943, bound for the Pacific. Its commander was burly Major General Innis Palmer ("Bull") Swift, a veteran spit-&-polish horse soldier ("It doesn't take a damn bit of practice to live like a hog") who made a crack record in combat...
...surged and swayed around the grisly spot. One woman emptied a pistol into the Duce's body. "Five shots!" she screamed. "Five shots for my five murdered sons!" Others cried: "He died too quickly! He should have suffered!" But the hate of many was wordless. They could only spit...
...went on what, I suppose, was the longest wake in history." When the wake ended, Actress Taylor (who is 61) was well on in middle age, very choosy-and good roles for her did not grow on trees. Says she: "It was either acting old mountaineer crones who spit tobacco juice in their son's eye-or Ibsen. I couldn't chew tobacco and I wouldn't be found dead in A Doll's House...
...brigadier he serves quietly and creditably through the First World War-and catches sight of a nurse (Deborah Kerr again) who is the spit & image of the young woman whose loss in Berlin confirmed him in bachelorhood. After the war he marries her. Together, in a British prisoner-of-war camp, they seek out and are coldly rebuffed by Candy's old friend, the Prussian officer. Candy's young wife dies; and the walls of his home, through the years, grow ever more thickly studded with the big-game victims of his soldierly loneliness...
Lieut. General George S. Patton insists on spit & polish. Soldier-Cartoonist Bill Mauldin pictures G.I.s as grimy and unshaven. Patton recently threatened to ban Stars & Stripes from his Army area unless Mauldin's well-plugged uglies tidied themselves up. Mauldin came back with a cartoon dig at the general. Navy Captain Harry Butcher, General Eisenhower's top aide, told the two to get together...