Word: nissen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marlene Dietrich received an accolade from Manhattan's autograph puppies, who rewarded her willingness to sign by adopting her as "Aunt Minnie." Top-ranking non-collaborators, reported the bobby-sox collectors, were "Gruesome Garson," "Gravel Gertie Nissen" and "Break-Your-Arm Benchley...
Delegates ate "austerity" cakes (without icing), drank sugarless coffee, stared enviously from crowded hotel rooms at the snug Nissen huts in London's parks. The war without parades had produced a peace conference without glamor...
...million Londoners are homeless, hundreds of thousands are living in "acute discomfort." Lack of labor, materials, time have made it impossible to rebuild wrecked houses. This winter at least 10,000 Nissen-type Army huts will dot the London landscape as emergency shelters. But they will shelter only a fraction of the homeless...
...about eight miles from the front), where the wounded are sorted according to their wounds; 2) mobile evacuation hospitals and field hospitals, 15 to 30 miles behind the lines; 3) station and convalescent hospitals in the rear. Ready for piecemeal hauling across the Channel are huge hospitals made of Nissen huts and bricks. When the beachheads deepen, many of the wounded will be put to bed in France...
Back in the Nissen huts, huddled around stoves, blue-jacketed flyers recounted the kill to shipmates. The story would brighten the hundreds of less profitable wave-skipping hours...