Word: underwear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...department store in Phoenix, Ariz. was swamped with orders for Antsy Pants -men's underwear shorts decorated in a bright print pattern of huge red ants. Said the store's advertisement: "He'll rant and dance with big red ants...
...talk of the campus. He was forever taking his little children out for walks, only to forget all about them and leave them abandoned in some shop or library. Once, after a day of bewildering discomfort, he found he had been wearing his one-piece suit of long underwear upside down...
Unfortunately for the logic of his position, Mr. White cannot explain away certain facts. One of his informants reports, "After (the fall of France) came the spoils of war--butter and bacon from Denmark, wines, perfumes and silk underwear from Paris--things that Germany hadn't known for years. Everybody thought the war was fine." The Germans began to disapprove of the war only when it appeared they were going to lose...
...Russian zone, "recruitment" sounded like the draft. In Leipzig, Saxony and the Berlin area several hundred men got a note from the Soviet military administration "At 0800 hours, June 15, you will report at with two blankets, underwear and two days' food. Your relatives can reach you through Field Post...
Divine Justice is as preposterous (to human understanding) as divine Grace. The divine detectives who arrest Joseph K. are brassy louts who eat his breakfast, try to get a rake-off by sending out for his food, try to make off with his shirt and underwear. "Much better give these things to us than hand them over to the depot ... for in the depot there's lots of thieving, and besides they sell everything there after a certain length of time, no matter whether your case is settled or not. And you never know how long these cases will...