Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screen a la Hollywood's idiotic hoopla. Some marcelled hero with rouged lips and a do-or-die voice has just charged a Jap battalion with six grenades clenched between his Pep-sodent-perfect molars, a Tommy gun in each hand and enough knives and bayonets stuck in his belt to start a hardware store; he has not only wiped out the battalion singlehanded, and held the bridge that saved his division from annihilation, but he killed the last 180 Japanese with his well-manicured bare hands, and has stopped twice in battle to make a five-minute oration...
...unfastened the fuselage plate of the radio compartment. Someone in the plane stuck his feet out. A man in the crowd yelled: "Look at those G.I. shoes...
...Navy professed to see no need for unification. It obviously hoped that, when unified command came, an admiral, probably able, steady Chester W. Nimitz, would become top dog. It was plain that if MacArthur got the Philippines back, and Stilwell got to the China coast, both would be stuck until the Navy ferried? them over to Japan. The Navy could afford to let the situation develop...
Jessie Pearl Rice, 42, Georgia schoolteacher, wanted to be a sergeant, instead serves as executive assistant to Colonel Hobby. To solid, jolly but no-nonsense Colonel Rice come male majors, colonels, generals with gripes about the WACs. Her own gripe is that she is stuck in Washington, seldom gets a chance to travel...
They were not always pets. They were born in days of desperation, when the U.S. needed many more carriers than it could hope to acquire in years if it stuck exclusively to its big first-line craft. The Navy was already converting oilers and C-3 cargo hulls into small carriers when President Roosevelt put the Maritime Commission to work on a new baby...