Word: washout
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...Washout. In Casper, Wyo., seekers for secondhand bathtubs sought out the wrecker of a 56-room hotel, found the hotel had been bathless...
...WASPs should get military status or be washed out altogether. As Congress showed no disposition to change its-mind, there was no choice for Hap Arnold. Admitting that there were now enough men to carry on the WASPs' jobs, principally ferrying of Army aircraft, he swung the washout brush, picked the December date "to permit the WASPs to reach their homes by Christmas...
...Washout. In the central and northern theaters it was now evident that the Japanese had not only been outfought in the jungle but outguessed in strategy...
...Angeles Y.M.C.A. hired him for a five-weeks' course for 4,000 adults, 1,500 youngsters. Back at Tulsa, Miller picked 100 Army air cadets, at random, taught them how to handle controls without strain or tension, reported to the Army that their washout rate had been cut a third below the average...
...prove better that it's the grouping rather than the actual letters that is seen by the normal reader, the Clinic sometimes asks what author the phrase "Washout at Irving" would represent, and most people attribute it to the originator of Ichabod Crane. Likewise, "Palcum towder," and Cixxcixati," would all probably be indistinguished from the real words, if flashed on the screen quickly...