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Word: wac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trick with a turned-up nose, brown hair and wide smile -neat and cute as a .22 bullet. Back home in Rochester, N.Y., she had been cashier in a cafeteria, until she persuaded the Army to make an exception to its 5-ft. rule and let her in the WAC, all 4 ft. 11 in. of her. As Private Margaret H. Maloney she was soon stationed in North Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Peewee | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...course you'd better watch out because they're not all like that, and that 5 foot, 4 inch brunette with the business experience may be a woman Marine, or a WAC. For the WAVE, although not Butcher, Baker, or Candlestick maker, could, right here in New England, be a cartographer, archaeologist, serologist, or a statistical epidemiologist. That might be dangerous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAVY SURVEY TAKES MEASURE OF AVERAGE AMERICAN WAVE | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

...anti-submarine platoon comes under the jurisdiction of the Ambiguous Training Command with headquarters at the abandoned WAC Information Booth on Boston Common...

Author: By S. SGT George avaklan, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 11/9/1943 | See Source »

...Subaltern Mary Churchill dropped in at Washington's "Back the Attack" show, peeked over the edge of a cutout display, momentarily turned into a 2½-dimensional WAC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 20, 1943 | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...Curie, newly arrived in London from the U.S., got down to work as a new private in the Corps Volontaires Françaises-the WAC of Free France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 20, 1943 | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

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