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...Freshman aspirant wears white ducks, white sneakers and a white sweat shirt, with his name stenciled on the back, a la West Point. By the time he is a Sophomore, our little friend is still white-ducked and white sneakered, but he has a black sweater to protect him from the often icy blasts of Soldiers Field. Since people generally know you when you're a Sophomore manager, the name tape is unnecessary. In fact, "hey, you!" is a term applied far more often to what were once known as Yardlings, stencil or no stencil, than it is to anonymous...
Newest U.S. air slang in Britain, where it is always received with enthusiasm and prompt use, is "sweating out." This usually means stewing in one's own juice, as "sweating out" a reprimand from a commanding officer. But it also has less serious meanings. Airmen in England sweat out a chow line (i.e., wait for food) or a routine assignment like a training flight...
...materials and machine tools for plane production. To the armed services, irked by civilian control over war building, no civilian could have been more acceptable. Ted Wright, onetime director of engineering and vice president of Curtiss-Wright, is an old hand at dealing with them, should be able to sweat more aircraft through WPB's red tape...
Ashore, the Commandos began the long, exhausting climb to the mountain top, beyond which lay the bridge they must destroy. Soon their cheeks were "streaked to the neck with charcoaled sweat, and the neck raw from chafing collar . . . the nostrils sore from running mucus. . . . There was pain in . . . the stooped shoulders straining downwards away from the pack . . . in the bent spine, in the small of the back. . . . Pain in the strung thighs, red pain in the chafed buttocks . . . in the gooseflesh skin of the thigh where a holster, or a knife in ihe trouser pocket, rubbed with the polish...
They came on bicycles - runty, bowlegged little men in cheap, stained uniforms, half of them wearing spectacles, only one out of every 25 armed with a machine gun, the rest carrying .25-caliber rifles. They were drenched in old sweat - "you could smell a troop of Japs 100 feet away . . . they smelt like hell...