Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest thrill," said our affable southerner, "came when I hit my first major league homer off Yank Terry in Boston. There was one man on, and that won the ball game." "Crash" will also mention with pleasure his three hits off Ruffing in the opener of the '41 season at the Yankee Stadium...
Solemn-faced Yank infantrymen in Normandy looked up in astonishment as a wide-smiling officer leaned out of a speeding jeep and waved. The doughboys did not know whether to wave back, salute, or just yell; some contrived to do all three. They looked at one another and grinned: "The Old Man himself...
Saturday: YANK BAYONETS SLASH PATH INTO CHERBOURG...
...Also in Titoland for the combined U.S. and British press was Renter's John Talbot. In addition, the Army's Yank published its first dispatches from Sergeant Correspondent Walter Bernstein, who had been in Yugoslavia for several weeks, shared his colleagues' enthusiasm for the Partisans...
...great many Army wives, keeping the home fires burning for U.S. soldiers in England, are regular readers of the Army newspaper Yank, which their husbands send back from overseas. Last week the ladies themselves were burning at Yank's playful soldier-editors. The paper has been printing lessons in French for the men who expect to invade France. In one lesson they were told exactly how to say, "My wife does not understand...