Word: sweatingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pearl Thighs and Centaur Sweat. Veronica spent most of her time horseback-riding-"the mother-of-pearl pincers of her thighs pressing the animal's flanks and blending with it in a pearly communion of centaur sweat." Betka had had a child before she left Paris: the father was probably the masked aviator, though it might have been three acrobats. But Veronica was not jealous. When she recalled her masked aviator, "her will fluttered like the star-spangled banner...
...ships they deliver are mostly trainers (few WASPs have qualified as pilots of four-engine bombers). But as pilots of small ships they are in some ways better than men. A trip in a trainer may take weeks because of adverse weather. The WASPs sweat it out with womanly patience when male pilots would be driven...
Even before they had time to sleep or wipe the sweat, dirt and blood off their faces, a group of U.S. Marines was whisked straight from the fight on Eniwetok to somebody's idea of heaven: a movie. Dog-tired, they were glad enough to flop down anywhere. Suddenly on the wrinkled screen, smiling winsomely, glowed the features of Frank Sinatra. And soft against the battle-battered Marine eardrums throbbed Frank's velvet protestations of his love for them. There was a short, amazed, ecstatic silence; then the Marines yawped, groaned and moaned, "Frankie, Oh Frankie, Oh Frankie...
That's when you begin to sweat. Our fighters were dog-fighting all around with their fighters-so many things you couldn't watch 'em all at once...
...progeny. She exclaimed: "Can you imagine! Quadruplets! That never happened in his family. Not even twins." No, she would not give Bill a divorce. Said her priest: "There is no way the marriage can be broken under the laws of the Church." Said her father: "Let him sweat...