Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house it just makes my hair stand plumb straight up on my head." The old man hoped the authorities would bring in dogs to track the cateymount down. "Dogs that aren't afeard. Our dogs is cowed. When they hears the cateymount they start to whine and tuck their tails between their legs...
Shoes. Green canvas leggings, usually prescribed, chafe so badly in the steaming jungle that troops on the march throw them away, tuck their pants legs into their socks. The canvas jungle boot, which may also be worn, does not chafe but its rubber sole provides no arch support on long marches. The eventual solution may be a boot-shoe with nylon uppers and cleated rubber sole-if a way can be found to make the cleats stay...
Following a nip-and-tuck fight for the J.V. spot, Charlie Loring's Freshmen will race as the second boat tomorrow, having won a coin toss from Bill Allen's crew. Both crews finished in a dead heat in Wednesday's time trial which was to decide the contest. The third contestant for the J.V. position, Shaw's boat, finished a poor third...
Down U-Boats. The Japs also respect a smaller brother of the Hellcat, the Wildcat fighter, and a halfbrother, the Avenger, a torpedo bomber. The Germans learned to respect them also in the once nip-&-tuck Battle of the Atlantic. With a "now-it-can-be-told" flourish, the Navy has let out the news that the most potent weapon of all against the U-boats were Wildcats, flying from baby flattops, and rocket-firing Avengers. In one six-month period, these planes sent 31 U-boats to the bottom, more than half of the entire total sunk...
...year-old C.P.O is married and has three children. He plans to get back to football "if the war is over soon." but otherwise looks forward to a career of coaching at some high school. "Real improvement" is seen by "Tuck" in the physical condition of the V-12 and civilian students under the program of calisthenics. "My idea of conditioning is to make it fun and make them like it--as long as they get a good workout...