Word: workingest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Normal Duties. "But Negro marines were at their best while performing their normal duties. Credited with being the workingest men on Saipan, they performed prodigious feats of labor both while under fire and after beachheads were well secured. Some unloaded boats for three days, with little or no sleep, working in water up to waist deep. Some in floating dump details were the first men to pile off their ship toward the beach...
...Giles brothers are identical twins, Texans and airmen. Neither is a West Pointer; both have been generals since the middle of 1942. It all started on Sept. 13, 1892 in Mineola, Tex. There the boys grew up on a farm; neighbors remember them as "the out-workingest hands and the best danged bird hunters in Texas...
...find that I am the least sleepingest and most workingest guy in the whole army. (You would probably find about 6,000,000 other liars who said they were-but we know better.) Not only am I the most workingest guy, but I am the least bathingest guy. Nothing would please me more than to see all of the male population of the U.S. have themselves a Saturday bath, Aleutian style. It is really quite simple and most effective. It's so effective that it practically kills you. It's done like this...
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