Word: yoo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...succeeds is solemn, starched, 65-year-old Lieut. General Ben Lear. Before the war Ben Lear was a good training officer, made national headlines by marching the rowdy spirits out of a battalion of trainees who went too far in yoo-hooing at girls on a Memphis golf links-where the General happened to be golfing. Lear's new assignment: Deputy Commander to General Ike Eisenhower...
Seven unhappy shipyard workers huddled on a raft near Portland, Ore., tired, hungry and cold. They were down to two days' chocolate rations. Within yoo-hoo distance floated the Coast Guard, sternly refusing them food, blankets, sympathy...
Clark said he still resented the "yoo-hoo" incident of two years ago, when Lear disciplined the 35th Division's (Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska) Quartermaster regiment. But there was more to the grudge. After the 1941 maneuvers Lear had the thankless job of overhauling his command, and one of the heads to roll was that of 61-year-old Major General Ralph E. Truman of Missouri, cousin of Missouri's junior Senator Harry Truman. Statesman Clark denounced Ben Lear from the Senate floor...
...splashed, helmeted students were picked officers and men from Lieut. General Ben ("Yoo-Hoo") Lear's Second Army. For two weeks they had puffed, sweated and bled through a nerve-racking training course as much like real battle as live bullets and dynamite could make it. They had absorbed a good half of the shocks that unsettle even well-trained soldiers in their first few days of actual battle: racket and din of their own weapons, the heart-stopping confusion of a stream-crossing under fire, the never-ending struggle with barbed wire and booby traps...
...shows for the service men are to be "clean but humorous." Before they can go on, the Army's Morale Division has to okay them. In the promotion for Camp Shows, the word "sex" is archly avoided. As a makeshift for it, Camp Showmen have coined a yoo-hoo substitute-"woodle...