Word: yeomanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was news. The Administration had argued for ten months that the Soldier Vote law, by giving the responsibility to 48 states, would in effect deny many soldiers the right to vote. The states and the armed forces were doing yeoman work in getting out the ballot. It was too early to say that the 4,300,000 applications already received would mean that 4,300,000 servicemen were actually going to cast ballots. Some states are less efficient than others; in some states, notably the South, where the servicemen's vote is not crucial, inefficiency may lose some...
...part of the Hungary operation, and the swing northward to Germany's side door. Another drive toward Nish, an important position on the Athens-Belgrade railroad, seemed designed to cut off the last Germans in Yugoslavia and Greece. Malinovsky was liquidating the Germans' Balkan venture, with yeoman help from Tito's Partisans and the British in Greece. But while he was carrying out this politico-military mission he was not forgetting the main job. Germany would feel the heavy hand of his army...
...better-looking than all those WACs put together. Why don't you give the WAVEs (and the public) a break and run her picture? We got her out of a big department store here in San Francisco, and she sure runs our outfit like a pants factory. [WAVE YEOMAN'S NAME WITHHELD] San Francisco...
...this letter he told of some of his experiences along with those of the other boys from here who were with him. He reported that Donogan is now in SK school in Idaho; Pickle is at Q.M. School at Great Lakes; Gordon is attending Yeoman School at Great Lakes; and Jim himself is attending Yeoman School down in Bainbridge. We all wish Jim the best of luck...
...known newspapermen," and moved up with his wrangling colleagues of the press to watch the New Georgia show. Everywhere he went he was troubled by his name, which fitted him like an outsize hat. "Say, are there three of you guys from TIME aboard, or what?" asked a puzzled yeoman who saw his papers on one ship. "I got a Duncan, a Norton and a Taylor...