Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have just returned from one year of active duty in the combat zone," said an airman. "Arriving on the West Coast, we were granted furloughs. Great was our rejoicing. We went to all parts of the country.. . . The country not only seemed to have changed. It had changed. People were complaining of rationing, the shortage of luxuries ... it was disgusting to us. Some of the Australians had not seen a potato for a year and a half. I talked to a man in a defense plant getting $380 to $420 per month. His job of inspecting kept him busy...
...Zone of Quiet...
...chair at Albright College, Myerstown, Pennsylvania. Regarded by the students at the Chaplain School as the best teacher on the staff, he brings to his teaching and administration a rich fund of experience gained through two decades of peace-time service in this country and in the Canal Zone, as well as in a variety of assignments since the present emergency began, including tours as Post Chaplain at sprawling Chanute Field, III., division chaplain of the Sixth Motorized Division, corps chaplain of the Sixth Army Corps, and Chaplain of the New York Port of. Embarkation at Brooklyn. Like his chief...
...rout from the very beginning, when Hall found the range for four successive deuces on long set shots. The Crimson defense, whether deployed in a zone or man-to-man, no matter what the lineup, was absolutely unable to halt the Cadets, who averaged about six feet four in height, and missed very few rebounds...
Ford, a slinky five-foot-niner with a head as smart as his strokes are slick, is the fair-haired boy of Coach Bob Kiphuth's Yale team. Born in Balboa, Canal Zone, he was given swimming lessons at the age of three because his parents, transplanted Illinoisans, wanted him to be more amphibious than they. By the time he was 15 he was picked for a team to represent the Canal Zone in an international swimming meet in South America. Last year, as a student at Mercersburg Academy, he caused a sensation by equaling Weissmuller's record...