Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shut-in of Bellingham, Wash., who gets$1 a month "to do what I want with," sent his month's income...
...bomber crew forced down on the sea was rescued by tiny aborigines. They took charge of a bombardier from Brawley, Calif., a navigator from Walla Walla, Wash., primitively tended their wounds, fed them coconut and sugar cane until rescue came...
...those 20 percent who do "wash out" still have a crack at bombadier or navigator training, both important combat duties, or at the ground jobs of meteorology, photography, communications, armament, or engineering, for which technical knowledge is more necessary than physical fitness...
From Camp Blanding, Fla. to Fort Lewis, Wash, the U.S. Army plugged at battle training. The emphasis was on operations of the battalion Majors, younger and slimmer than the Army had seen since World War I, led their outfits far into the field to march and dig in combat exercises. The Army, after the biggest field maneuver ever, in 1941, was preparing for field exercises...
Events happened fast and furiously yesterday afternoon, and when the wash died down Harvard had a new Varsity 150-pound crew. The so-called "Junior Varsity," stroked by Frank Cunningham, produced a half-length victory over Johnny Abbot's "Varsity" eight, and thereby won the right to carry the Crimson colors into the Rowe Cup Regatta Saturday...