Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stalingrad. One night a fortnight ago the worn men of Major General Alexander Rodintsev's 13th Guards Division crouched in their holes in the northwest district of Stalingrad and listened to sudden thunderous cannonading. The din was their own artillery...
Snafu is when the supply ship arrives and the stuff on the bottom should have been on top. Snafu is when radio receiving sets arrive at a jungle camp without batteries. Snafu is when a regiment unloads its trucks overseas and finds most of them so worn that they are ready to fall apart. Snafu is when the yellow-fever vaccine gives everybody jaundice; when the planes cannot fly because spare parts ordered four months ago never show up; when headquarters orders red crosses painted on the hospital just after it has been meticulously camouflaged. Snafu is when a Seattle...
Airman Kenney. For this good news the U.S. could give George Kenney and his airmen much credit. Starting with worn-out planes and weary pilots, General Kenney in three months had: 1) all but knocked out what planes the Japs could spare to New Guinea; 2) helped to stop one Jap landing at Milne Bay and knocked out a Jap attempt to reinforce Buna; 3) bombed Jap bases in New Britain and the northern Solomons day after day to help the Marines hold Guadalcanal (see below). For a month George Kenney's pursuit planes had been so free...
...herself by landing the biggest chromite contract ever: $846,000 for 25,000 tons. Then came trouble. The Alaskan mine was under 30 feet of snow, could be mined only at terrific cost. Dot flopped on her contract, got back to her California mines with only $11 in her worn purse...
Smacking thoroughly of Irving Berlin from its thirteen songs to its superficial plot, "Holiday Inn" is the sure-fire musical it has to be. Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby supply able song-and-dance accompaniment,a t the same time filling the order for time-worn romantic conflict. Round one goes to Astaire when the tranquil night club trio of Crosby, Astaire, and Virginia Dale splits up, Crosby retiring to a farm, while his hoofer pal wins the gal and goes on hoofing...