Word: wac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ceremonies commenced with the appearance, soon after 12 o'clock bells, of placards stating such conflicting views as, "Keep My Dad in College," "Neville Wanted Peace, Too," and "I Didn't Raise My Mom To be a WAC...
...valleys are peaceful and primitive. I stood in the main street of Belmont, which has a population of 349 souls, and looked at a red, white and blue poster. It showed a blond young giant in blue overalls holding a peasant girl by the hand; she in turn wac clasping the hand of a chubby infant. All three of them were depicted as standing in the middle of a field of corn, smiling brightly. At the foot of the poster, in great black letters, it said: "Paysans! Paysannes! Pour une vie phis riche-votes Communiste" (Men & women of the farms...
...Chicago last week, 300 WAC veterans from six Midwest states gathered sedately at the Congress Hotel, demurely turned down an offer from a gathering of neighborly meat packers to join forces...
Amid the usual platitudes of an A.S.N.E. convention, Harry Ashmore's candor was refreshing. Oveta Gulp Hobby, wartime head of the WAC and executive editor of the Houston Post, turned to another editor and murmured: "I wish we had him on our staff." There were others who felt the same way. Soon Ashmore got flattering job offers from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Atlanta Journal and the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette...
...June 17, 1946). In Frankfurt last week an eight-member Army court pronounced sentence on Colonel Jack W. Durant for his part in the crime. The sentence: 15 years at hard labor, dismissal from the service. Already serving prison terms for the same offense are Durant's ex-WAC captain wife, Kathleen (five years); and Major David F. Watson (three years...