Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital just before her baby was born. Later that week the young mother was able to tell her story. She had come from a north Texas town four days earlier to rejoin her husband, a cadet at the San Antonio aviation cadet school. Tired and worn down after fruitless room-hunting, she had spent three nights in the ladies' lounge of the Gunter, four days in the lobby waiting for a phone call from her husband...
...colorful little feature of the Orderly Room these days is the board containing 29 different shoulder patches being worn by men in the unit. It isn't quite complete, though, and Sgt. Isacowitz hopes that the six patches which he knows can be added to the board will be contributed soon. The board already includes patches from seven of the nine Service Commands...
...well-dressed ship-abandoner should leave without a life jacket. Chambliss prefers the inflatable type to kapok. Worn on the person, the rubber jacket is always available and may be deflated for faster swimming...
When their voices were worn thin from piercing the smoke-filled hall, the curtain went up on a gay musical comedy featuring the adventures of a group of ship-wrecked survivors in the Dutch East Indies...
...late yesterday afternoon he was inspired. He was a long way from Warren House, on Brattle Street, no less, and it was deadline time in English A. But intrepid Albie thought fast. In the back yard was a one worn but sturdy tricycle, not bicycle--tricycle...