Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle trial of Patwing Four began on June 2. That day the weather was so thick that an officer standing on one landing strip watching for a plane to let down was unable to see it as it landed on another strip in the same field. But other PBYs were out on patrol, fanning out over hundreds of miles. They found nothing...
...asked to give a skating exhibition at an Army air base. "They gave me six encores," she recalls. "And I didn't have a sixth encore planned so I went to the microphone and said 'What will it be, boys?' They all shouted 'The Strip Polka.' Well, I asked for it. The music started and I made it up as I went along. The boys kept shouting at the right places. When they yelled 'Take it off! Take it off!' I lifted my skirt the tiniest bit. I'm an amateur...
...assortment of some 30 servants and refugees. They went first by motor transport into a jungle. Their path crossed elephant trails until they came to a chasm bridged only by a rope suspension which could carry nothing heavier than jeeps. (Belden had one.) General Stilwell ordered everyone to strip unnecessary paraphernalia so as to be able to walk. In the weeds a pile of elegant rubbish grew-steel helmets, pink brassieres, whiskey bottles, tins of powder, notebooks, overcoats, rich Mandalay silks...
Cross word puzzles, short wave radio programs, games, notes entitled Strictly G.I., a cartoon strip "Sad Sack," and a column of letters (only opening for officer contributions) are by now popular features. Special editions on the Air Force and the Navy have been printed, and special praise has been extended vigorous officers like Uncle Joe Stilwell and Major General Gerhardt, who is photographed shirtless, riding a horse through a raging stream. Maps, scarce and in great demand overseas, are now printed in every issue; and a service of advice and features like Milt Caniff's "Male Call" is sent...
Cross word puzzles, short wave radio programs, games, notes entitled Strictly G.I., a cartoon strip "Sad Sack," and a column of letters (only opening for officer contributions) are by now popular features. Special editions on the Air Force and the Navy have been printed, and special praise has been extended vigorous officers like Uncle Joe Stilwell and Major General Gerhardt, who is photographed shirtless, riding a horse through a raging stream. Maps, scarce and in great demand overseas, are now printed in every issue; and a service of advice and features like Milt Caniff's "Male Call" is sent...