Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commander of Service Suadron 10, had six types of naval repair ships at Ulithi (one for radio and radar alone). His flotilla included a drydock for destroyers, tenders to make emergency repairs on big ships like bomb-blasted Franklin, Ticonderoga and Intrpid. He claimed that Ulithi's water-taxi service, which ran between ships and shore was the world's largest - more than 400 small boats manned by more than 1,000 coxswains...
...everyone is as careful as Britain's King & Queen to appease the pixies. Recently a Manx taxi driver, instead of saying "Evie, manyagh veggar!" when he reached the Ballasalla Bridge, cried: "Bah!" As he crossed the bridge, the door of his taxi came open and he shot...
Said a usually reliable source (from Newell way), "Women already have entered factories; they are commonly seen as taxi drivers and street car conductors; they have even become doctors and lawyers-they MUST NOT be allowed to invade man's most sacred occupation, crew racing. This movement of incipient revolt must be stopped. Together men of Harvard, the day of glory has arrived...
...Town. In Boston, police were left holding a bag, forgotten in a taxi by four sailors. Its contents: one dozen pickles, a jar of olives, a box of crackers, three frankfurters, a copy of Good Night, Sweet Prince, the life & loves of John Barrymore...
...Dodge brought British supplies to ELAS hospitals herself. Her woman assistant spotted a coal heap, took a taxi out and shoveled it full. Dr. Dodge got the hospital staffs to throw out the fake patients and take care of the real ones. Again she got the Greeks to clean up their hospitals-delouse, scrub, bury the dead and the refuse...