Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army came and so did the best thing that ever happened to the division: a long rest in Australia, where people get false teeth early. Australian girls couldn't believe the marines' molars were their own. "Finally, this babe with me reached over," said one marine, "and took hold of my teeth and tried to yank 'em and I let her. She was sure surprised when nothing gave." Before the division left Melbourne most of the men "were in some stage of a serious love affair with an Australian girl...
...laughed now. You idiots, he said to the windows full of cheap neckties. You silly bastards, he said to the bookstalls and the camera shops. You couldn't hear tonight, could you? You never hear St. Luke, do you? You can have your Xmas. I'll settle for Christmas...
...this year the neighbors got riled. What with the traffic and the music, they couldn't talk, think, sleep, or get in & out of their own driveways. "I am sorry to say it," said one, "but I don't believe I want to hear Silent Night ever again...
...that High Commissioner John J. McCloy had received a new directive from Washington on U.S. policy in Germany. "I don't see what all the fuss is about," snapped one of McCloy's top aides. "There's very little in the directive that you couldn't have written yourself...
Coach Floyd Wilson's Yardlings started hitting the basket too late against the Eagles and couldn't close a ten point deficit. But Tech, which finished 34 points behind a Boston University team which the Yardlings beat, 56 to 48, is unlikely to build up any lead over the freshmen...