Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...startling thing I find about English girls though is their helpful and cooperative nature. Gladly will they darn your socks, wash your clothes, share their limited food rations with you, . . . listen to your bragging about central heating and then apologize for what five years of war have done to what appears to me a beautiful little island after the flat dry desolation of Texas and the stinking swamps of Louisiana...
There is no money on the island, and trade is carried on by barter. The U.S. and British soldiers can get a chicken for two pounds of flour, three eggs for a pound of rice. They live in the farmhouses, where housewives serve their meals, wash their clothes. By day they play soccer with the island men, who are remarkably good and usually beat them. By night they gather in barns with Partisan girls, dance by lantern light to the music of accordions and guitars...
Forbidden Ground. On the invasion rim, from King's Lynn on The Wash down past Great Yarmouth, the herring port, past Harwich, home of Britain's famed gunnery school, to the misty mouth of the Thames, where Sheerness and Shoeburyness stand guard, to the North Foreland around by Dover and Beachy Head to Southampton and on to the Devon towns and Land's End in Cornwall, only those with identity cards might...
...Sandringham, in Norfolk, near The Wash, the King's farmers clucked to the King's horses and turned the King's sod as they and their fathers did for George V and his father, Edward VII. The King was born in York Cottage, Sandringham, and his father died there...
Soldier of Fortune. Major Gregory Boyington, aged 31, of Okanogan, Wash., had shot down 26 Jap planes-six as a Flying Tiger, 20 as a Marine pilot in the South Pacific-without ever having been given a medal (TIME, Jan. 17) not even one of the 100,000 Air Medals which have been strewn (chiefly by the Army Air Forces) around the globe. Last week, three months after he had failed to return from a mission, Boyington's medal came through...