Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stephen Crane was born in Newark in 1871. He was the frail 14th child of a gentle Methodist pastor named Jonathan and an unyielding force of nature named Mary. "You could argue just as well with a wave," her favorite son once said. Baby Stephen's first intelligible query is supposed to have been: "Ma, how do you spell O?" He was obviously destined to be a writer. When he died of tuberculosis at 28, he had been that and other things...
...Wave & Look Happy." Meanwhile, the port of Wonsan was evacuated by elements of the Army's 3rd Division, which were moved 50 miles north by sea to help hold a perimeter around Hamhung and Hungnam. The R.O.K. 3rd and Capital Divisions, which had also been evacuated by sea far up the northeastern coast, arrived to strengthen the defense arc around Hamhung. The U.S. 3rd formed a rescue force which rolled up the Changjin road and joined the hard-pressed marines and G.I.s of the southbound column, a few miles from Koto. The rescue party had been given the formidable...
...week's end some 8,000 marines broke through the last thin crust of enemy resistance and poured into Hamhung. More kept coming in every hour as tanks bringing up the rear rolled across the coastal plain. Frantic photographers called to the bedraggled men, asked them to "wave and look happy." They obliged. The triumph was marred by more than 30% casualties, but the bulk of the marine division's and the 7th's survivors had reached safety and warmth. It was an epic of great suffering and great valor...
...present a member of the WAVE reserves, she served with the Navy from November 1943 to June 1946. During this time she did personnel work, acting as the head resident of a WAVE dormitory, an assistant in a snack bar, a floor scrubber, and a secretary...
Sweetening. Muggsy well remembers the old wave. He had learned his broad, lazy, middle-register style as a scrawny kid, sitting on the curb outside Chicago's Pekin Cafe, listening chin-in-hand to the stream of notes pouring from the golden horns of Joe ("King") Oliver and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong. He got his first job at 14, blew his head off from 8:30 at night to 4:30 in the morning for $25 a week...