Word: tilling
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...boys, Walker, Woodin, Wilcox, Wood, et al., minus "Suave Sue" Wolf, raided Beantown's late nests Saturday till their collective hearts with content, but could find nothing to "the Shang"--not a paid advertisement...
...Sloppy Joe's bar on Kansas City's 12th Street, big, black-haired Joe Mario, the bartender, served three soldiers, then sat down and wrote a letter to a soldier in Germany: "Dear Brother: A job well done. . . . There will be no celebrating for me till you come home. . . . Then we will put it on good. I have waited for this day a long time. Till we meet again. God bless you and all the world...
...guards thought the women, slave workers in the camp, were becoming too friendly with the Americans. One morning 250 prisoners were assembled on the prison ground. The three women were lined up before them and stripped. 55 men then lashed them with a cat-o'-nine-tails till they died. Said the sergeant: "It took about 20 minutes...
...blackout" was officially ended in Britain* last week. But for most Britons the lightup was a letdown. Instead of full illumination, they got only an installment. Darkened cities along the coast will remain dark. And streets will not be fully lit till July...
...that unessential things, like furniture, napkins, sheets and silver plate, are essential," or "the blasted superficiality and bogus pretence of education." There were also the medico from a High land regiment with his Cornish remedy for colds ("Hang a boot over foot of bed, go to bed, drink whiskey till you see two boots, go to sleep"), and the genial host, Jack Barrett, full of his customers' reminiscences : one, asked if he never broke his marriage vows, answered, "I ain't never exactly broke 'em, but I've sure give 'em a hell...