Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spanish Civil War. He beat the U.S. into both world wars, serving in the French Foreign Legion early in World War I, where he became the first American ever to earn a commission, and in the R.A.F. in World War II, as the nonfighting organizer of the all-Yank "Eagle Squadron," which chalked up more than 70 Luftwaffe planes before joining the U.S. forces...
...ball-peen rendition of John Henry. He was boffo. He got a square meal and a bed. In Australia a few months later, members of the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association looked up from an outdoor luncheon to see one of their members approaching followed by "a wandering Yank who sort of popped in and wants to sing us a song." Buddy gave them up-tempo renderings of Waltzing Matilda and Seven Old Ladies. The N.S.W.T.A. members responded with For He's a Jolly Good Fellow and a gift of a tennis racket and a pair of sneakers...
...greatest American woman." But he soon turned misanthropic. In columns that grew steadily more vitriolic, he referred to Roosevelt as a "feebleminded fuehrer," Eleanor as "La Boca Grande." He reserved his choicest venom for Harry Truman: "thin-lipped, a hater and not above offering you his hand to yank you off balance and work you over with a chair leg, pool cue or something out of his pocket." After the assassination attempt on Truman in 1950, Pegler berated "hypocrites" for getting excited. "I hope this will be a lesson to Truman," he wrote in a column that was killed...
...halfback abandoned pursuit of the ball for pursuit of his tormentor, and vengefully set about choking the aggressiveness out of him. But though spectators decorously booed Dawkins' unsportsmanlike lapse, there was wide rejoicing over the post-match shandy (a concoction of beer and lemonade) that the hitherto irreproachable Yank had at last displayed some evidence of human frailty...
...post as managing director of Britain's Monsanto Chemicals, Ltd., handsome, hard-working John C. Garrels Jr., 47, found himself the only Yank executive among 4,000 employees-and a pretty obvious one. After nine months spent boning up on Monsanto's British subsidiary, Garrels arrives in his paneled London office at a tradition-shattering 9 a.m. (at least an hour before most Britons), keeps his office door ajar (to "see who goes to the bathroom"), first-names his protocol-conscious associates. One of Garrels' big problems will be matching last year's record turnover...