Word: stowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boats maintained an air of spinsterish respectability. The night boat took on a raffish tilt. It became the favorite vehicle of newlyweds and not-yet-weds, of petty coggers and straw-hatted drummers. Later, vacationists bound for the Adirondacks still patronized it, grateful that they could stow their cars in its hold and their young in its berths...
...inside the huge, dark loft, and the dust begins to swirl and the ones on the wagon are pitching hay up at you as fast as they can, and you are trying tp stow it back in the loft. In about two minutes the place begins to put on a very good imitation of purgatory, for the sun is beating down mercilessly on a tin roof over your head, and the loft is one big black Stifling oven. I wish I had thought a little about that cow barn, back in the days when I was committing so many sins...
Last week, after his fifth try (this time on the Queen Elizabeth) 20-year-old David was on New York's Ellis Island, waiting to be deported again. And Minnie, now 22, was still waiting, convinced that "he'll make it yet." Said David, threatening to stow away again & again: "I'll never marry anyone else...
...evening he went off to the kind of party he likes best. In the informal, off-the-record atmosphere of the Hard-rock Club,* gregarious Harry Truman could let down his hair, stow away a man-sized meal of steak, asparagus, salad and scalloped potatoes, play poker until midnight. The big (but not very big) loser: Harry Truman...
...cream whites would look after a washing without being able to press them or iron them. Besides the dress uniform will never be as practical as the present blues because after a hectic liberty all you have to do is take them off, turn inside out, fold neatly and stow them away in your locker. Then next liberty take them out, brush them off and they look just like...