Word: trousering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charlotte Observer, "inclined to the opinion that the delayed-baggage incident served to inspire, rather than depress, them." All agreed that Conductor Rodzinski had more than measured up to the emergency. Happily - for it was no dream - he had discovered in time the absence of a couple of influential trouser buttons...
...pants is pants and time will tell. Slowly the creases went from the front and a shine appeared at the back. Six weeks is a long time in the trouser world, they decided. And then they got invited to a dance. "Most important party that has come to my attention this year," match-maker Beatrice Glard announced...
...There was pain in . . . the stooped shoulders straining downwards away from the pack . . . in the bent spine, in the small of the back. . . . Pain in the strung thighs, red pain in the chafed buttocks . . . in the gooseflesh skin of the thigh where a holster, or a knife in ihe trouser pocket, rubbed with the polish of dripping water." It was still dark when they stopped to rest at "a heap of stones . . . shown on the map as a farmhouse . . . many miles from any road or track...
...Production Chairman Donald M. Nelson last week had surprising news for the U.S. people. The U.S. civilian economy, which during the year has seen the manufacture of not one new civilian automobile, refrigerator, washing machine, alarm clock, trouser cuff, radio or many a smaller doodad or furbelow, has been cut about as deeply as it will be. The problem now is to simplify, standardize, produce more of the things Americans must have from the materials and manpower now available...
Above all, Commandomen must learn to kill. They prefer to kill quietly. A favorite Commando weapon is a long, straight knife, both edges sharpened razor-keen, carried in a trouser sheath. Some have metal kneecaps, fitted with metal spikes, to be driven into enemy crotches and spines. They can devise their own daggers, clubs, knives. They know the uses of spiked brass knuckles. All must know a Commando equivalent of jiujitsu. Fiercely, without quarter, they battle each other in practice combat, often break each other's bones: a few nights before the St. Nazaire raid one officer...