Word: steering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slang-hardened American flyers have been fascinated by "pukka gen," which means honest-to-God authoritative information. "Duff gen" is a wrong steer...
Sail forth-steer for the deep waters only...
Pointing out that some of the assignments are too confidential to be commented upon, Shapley added that the nature of others are obvious when it is recalled that sailors steer by the stars and that the observatory has had to build and use many kinds of lenses and mirrors and practice various photographic techniques in the normal course of astronomical research...
Before they said their farewells, the 19th's men danced in the officers' mess with wives and girls, dined on "snaggletooth Texas steer whose rump is stamped 'Suzy-Q, approved,'" and toasted each other at the new Pyote Officers' Club. On the stroke of midnight, an officer stepped to the microphone, asked for a moment of silence "as a small tribute to those we left over there"-to men like Captain Harl Pease, Lieut. Colonel Austin Straubel, Major Dean ("Pinky") Hoevet, Master Sergeant Louis ("Soup") Silva, Lieut. R. B. Burleson and Captain Colin Kelly...
Another trouble: meat price ceilings are in the wrong places and at the wrong levels. All retail meat prices are pegged at the March 1942 level, but livestock prices (exception: hogs) are as free as a steer on the range. Inevitable result: a record wartime demand pushed livestock prices smack against retail meat ceilings, squeezed profit margins so thin many a jobber and packer was temporarily forced out of the market...