Word: yeomanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...antiquated navy. It has two 19,000-ton battleships, built in 1908 and 1909 but now modernized, two cruisers of the same vintage, nine destroyers, four comparatively modern Italian-built submarines, eight minelayers, two minesweepers, some 15 auxiliaries. For the last few months the Brazilian Navy has quietly done yeoman service with U.S. South Atlantic convoys...
...north-county rural chamber, amid frowning portraits of side-whiskered yeoman justices, eleven U.S. officers sat in judgment. Private Hammond testified nervously, lolling back cross-legged in an upholstered chair. He and the girl agreed they had picked each other up, had drunk beers and wine in pubs, had sought the privacy of a bomb shelter together, had kissed. The girl insisted she had screamed, slapped, scratched. But she admitted that when it was over she had wiped his face with his handkerchief...
When Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels was hard pressed for clerical workers just before the U.S. entered World War I, he gave his legal advisers a knowing look: forthwith they decided that a yeoman need not be male. This led to 11,275 yeomanettes in the U.S., France...
Officialdom had done its best. On Ickes' plea and advice to learn to spit straight, Federal agencies donated spittoon mats; the Senate threw in 500, the House, 1,200. Others had done yeoman work: national committees tried new ballyhoo; uniformed Boy Scouts stood long hours at service stations begging motorists to give up rubber mats from rear compartments; the American Legion staged drives; women's clubs formed telephone brigades; appeals were made to crowds at ball games. But all this was far from enough. Too many Americans had not bothered to rummage their houses for rubber...
...officer's tall, steel desk, a formidable affair with apparently enough drawers, slats and pigeonholes for a post office. For the streams of red tape on land flow right out to sea. An officer spends many an hour shuffling papers in the pigeonholes, dictating to a yeoman or even hunting and pecking on his portable, creating more red tape for other officers to shuffle...