Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skinny Wainwright's northern Luzon troops grudgingly began to back up. Ford, Chevrolet and G.M.C. trucks with the insignia of Japan rolled over the roads with General Homma's little men. Jap artillery hurled shells made of U.S. scrap. Jap planes, sent back after Singapore to finish the job, dropped fragmentation bombs made of the same stuff. Back of Wainwright's lines, base hospitals overflowed in gangrened misery...
...more are howling down over the trees, roaring toward the congestion. One of the two sees it in time . . . but the other crashes head on, and welds two gliders into a ball of scrap...
Kelly got into a first-class scrap that time. He joined in heartily until ammunition began to run low, then volunteered to go for more. Next day also was brisk. Said Kelly...
...years. Kuh has been a correspondent in Europe most of 24 years. Says he: "At least one man I knew 24 years ago was then just above a male charwoman in rank; now he is quite high up in an Allied government." Kuh apparently never forgets a casual scrap of information...
...Project's end is not an indictment of the WPA . . . but of us as a nation who deny dignity to the individual artist. ... It would be hard to convince me that some of the good [art] was not included among the thousands of canvases . . . sold for scrap...