Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent months Field had listened less to Evans and more to outsiders who wanted the Sun to get in there and scrap with Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's archconservative Tribune. Fortnight ago, after Evans' financial columnist, pompous Philip S. Hanna, had labeled the federal ballot for soldiers "a trick to dodge the Constitution," Hanna was summarily fired by Field...
...sense of being willing to drudge for what he believes in, and possessed of a genuine love for Adano, the place and the people. This love is epitomized in his effort to get the people of Adano a church bell to replace the bell the Nazis carried off for scrap. Sometimes it seems that Major Joppolo is the only person who loves the villagers. Certainly he is the only one who has a practically realizable vision of what democracy can bring to Adano. Raised in The Bronx, razzed as a wop in school, a truck driver...
There is "no resolution or bill under consideration" to scrap the student training program now being sponsored by the Army and Navy, stated Massachusetts Representative Charles R. Clason in a special dispatch to the HARVARD SERVICE NEWS yesterday. Congressman Clason went on to state that "any changes now being made are due to the action of the several services," and although "the Committees may file an advisory report, no legislation is under consideration by the Committee." The Committee referred to in the statement is the House Military Affairs Committee, of which Clason is a member...
Commander Charles, 34, having somehow survived a plane-shattering crash, spent three months in the hospital, went out to the Pacific as a fighter pilot. Lieut. Richard, 27, a fighter pilot in one of the old Yorktown's famous squadrons, was in the scrap in the Coral Sea. He was shot down but survived to fight at the Battle of Midway. Twice decorated, he is now at Jacksonville (Fla.) teaching new airmen how to fight. Lieut. Quentin, 25, who commanded an antiaircraft battery on the Saratoga, is also at Jacksonville. While Richard and Quentin were having a breather...
There was scarcely a war book which did not have, like bits of precious metal buried in piles of scrap iron, its passages of eloquence and emotion. There was not one which, spanning the fronts in all their global immensity, and the millions of individual tragedies, encompassed the war in a single definitive work. Piecing the accounts together, editing out irrelevancies, readers could compose their own history of their own time from the almost limitless supply of fair-to-good material for speculation and inquiry...