Word: washtub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second Army's men made camp in afternoon showers, and by night without lights-in creek valleys, on hills, in woods. They slept on the ground, ate good food from spotless mess kits, with gusto. Every creek was a bathtub where bronzed soldiers bathed, a washtub where they laundered clothes and hung them on tree limbs to dry. In bivouac and on long halts, barbers broke out clippers and shears, went to work on soldiers' close-cropped polls. If condition, cleanliness and a kind of jeering morale were the only measures of good outfits, the Second Army needed...
Lyford, who had spilt acid on a pair of chemistry work pants, rebelled in his own way and threw the pants on the shower floor with the water turned on full. Summoned away from his impromptu washtub by some errand. he was absent for about a quarter of an hour and returned to find langorous waves breaking slowly over the far edge...