Word: stewing
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...become a bottleneck. Forty-six Army nurses arrived in San Antonio after a harrowing three-day trip on a troop train from California, sharing two chair cars with G.I.s. One day's food ration was a piece of bread and jelly and a small portion of stew. Half the time their cars had no water. ("Our washroom simply stank.") But at least they got home. In West Coast ports, thousands of returned troops were stalled indefinitely. Housing facilities were so bad many of them had to be quartered in barracks ships in Puget Sound. There would be many disappointments...
...ranch hands galloped into the tough town of Upper Frisco to rescue their comrade and avenge the indignity of the arrest. Sheriff Baca locked himself in a mud-and-log hut, kept his six-shooters blazing for 36 hours, pausing only long enough to fix some tortillas and beef stew. When the battle ended, four cowboys were dead, many wounded. Nineteen-year-old Elfego had not even been singed...
...Tokyo (see FOREIGN NEWS), might have thought that the Japs had dropped an atomic bomb on the U.S. Said a topflight U.S. admiral: "Here we had things neatly laid out and the war was going fine-then the damned Japs surrender and throw us into a hell of a stew...
...Both the stew and the task of occupation were without precedent. The U.S. and her Allies simply were not ready for sudden victory, and most of the alarums and troubles stemmed from that fact...
Highpoint meat, butter, canned fruit and other hard-to-get items were scratched from P.O.W. menus. Substitutes: beef hearts, liver, low-grade cuts for stew (twice a week), margarine (once a day), stewed fruit, more spaghetti, more bread to maintain a calorie count equal to the standard U.S. Army garrison ration...