Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Building an airfield on the rough terrain would be a major engineering job, but there are sheltered coves for seaplanes, good anchorages for ships. The workers and sailors will have to import water; on Albermarle, which has almost no fresh water, the ranchers and cattle hands drink coconut juices, wash in salt water...
...taken railroads. He found that he had to guard them, with men placed in sight of one another, or else a bomb or tools in the hands of fast-working coolies would wash the rails away. The Jap seized whole provinces, and found his kind of peace in the towns where he made his headquarters. But where he had to spread thin he found endless strife and the sniping of the guerrilla. There were not enough soldiers in the Japanese Army to hold the tides over which the enemy had raised his flag...
Campaigner. Near Newport, Wash., Congressional Candidate Joe Albi buttonholed a friendly farmer for his vote. "Be glad to," said the oldtimer, "only I can't vote in Washington. This here's Idaho...
There were Edward Czeklauski of Brooklyn, George Pucilowski of Detroit, Theodore Hakenstad of Bremerton, Wash. There were Frank Rebbillo of Providence, Zane Gemmill of St. Clair, Pa., Frank Christensen of Racine, Wis., Abraham Dreiscus of Kansas City. There were the older, but not better, American names like Ray and Thacker, Walsh and Eaton and Tyler. The war was closer. And it was getting Americanized...
...Memphis cotton factor for $50,000. He gypped his hands out of "everything he thought they would stand . . . sold them cheap whiskey at bonded prices for what little money they did draw." In 1917 cotton went to 50?. Old Man Town, in his $75 custom-made boots, his faded wash pants, his wide Stetson and his 50? work gloves, was a Cotton King. Mrs. Town decided that her daughters should become Delta Queens. Old Man Town's lawyer bought them "a wine-colored brick monstrosity" on Memphis' Speedway. The girls were enrolled in Miss May's Select...