Word: teeter
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Portlanders temporarily stopped wondering where vacation gasoline was coming from, let little thrills teeter up & down their spines. Things were getting as exciting as right after Pearl Harbor. They were miffed when OCD's James M. Landis said they were behind the East in preparations (Eleanor Roosevelt had said just the opposite), but their complacency was restored when he added that Portland was better prepared than San Francisco and cities to the south. Actually, 75,000 Portlanders are schooled in civilian defense and regularly on the alert, but the other 250,000 peoples are merely excited...