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Word: wac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playhouse of Stars (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Rosalind Russell in Never Wave at a WAC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

Teaser. At Fort Sam Houston, Texas, curious personnel officers had a talk with WAC Pfc. Gloria Yeager, who had listed her civilian occupation as "stripper," learned that she used to strip tobacco leaves in a cigarette factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 8, 1951 | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

Rank Amateur. In Oakland, Calif., the shore patrol arrested Bertha Watson for impersonating a WAC, after noting that she wore a colonel's eagle on one shoulder, a general's star on the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...Mother Teresa's idea. Top-flight Fashion Designer Carnegie had whipped up the WAC uniform. Why couldn't she do a modern garb for hard-working nuns? Hattie's solution, designed free of charge: a simple two-piece, ankle-length dress in grey wool with a gored skirt that can be turned inside out when the fabric begins to wear; a coat of heavy grey wool with a Peter Pan collar and close-fitting sleeves; a small-brimmed grey hat with deep cloche sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Habit by Hattie | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...Honor has retired from his spot as doorman and his avocation as match-maker. He is now happily married to a former WAC, and is living on a chicken farm in New Hampshire. They say he is very happy, but occasionally he returns to the Lighthouse to say hello and to look around...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: Saturday Night in Scollay Square: Burlies, Girlies, Bars, and Bums | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

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