Word: yanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William B. Dougherty, brought up "Draftee," one of the 155-mm. rifles that the Allies have dubbed "Long Tom" and the Germans "Whispering Death." A truck hauled the heavy gun into position. The crew wrote their names on the first shell. A red-haired Tennessee private was about to yank the lanyard when the colonel came up and said: "Do you mind, son?" The private answered: "That's all right, sir." The colonel yanked. Seconds later the shell crashed into the San Gio vanni rail and ferry terminal. It was the first artillery shot fired on Italy...
...recent cigaret advertisement showed a well-groomed soldier resting comfortably in a tropical setting, under the slogan, "Light Up and Relax." This ad and others like it last week were soundly thwacked in an editorial in the Down Under (Australian area) edition of Yank, the Army weekly. Drawled Yank...
...Yank About Town. Dick Bruno (ser geant reporter for Stars and Stripes) came up with Winchelln-from an unidentified North African city. Samples...
Your issue of TIME, April 5, reached this outfit just at the close of the Tunisian campaign. In reading each and every line from cover to cover, as all of us do, I came across "Cartoonist Soldier." . . . Dave Breger, principally through Yank, has contributed no little to the raising of spirits among troops in this theater by his excellent cartoons...
...Yank, the Army weekly magazine, is one year old. A strictly Government Issue publication, it will last roughly only for the duration, does not worry about circulation (figures are secret) or profit. Yank now has four editions-two published in New York (for U.S. camps, for overseas distribution), one in London for soldiers stationed in Britain, one in Puerto Rico for Caribbean garrisons. Others are planned...