Word: tenderfeet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a Brick. As soon as the news got back to Gold Bridge, a tiny town on the Bridge River, prospectors for miles around got the itch. Some were gnarled veterans of the Gold Rush. Some were tenderfeet. Only one had a Geiger counter, and none knew anything about radioactive ores. That did not stop them...
Experts have fished Silver Creek for as long as two weeks without a nibble, and tenderfeet have latched on to as many as eight rainbows in an hour, only to lose them, and the leaders, after a brief, vicious struggle...
Idaho, which has almost twice as much trout water as California and Oregon combined, and only about a tenth as many fishermen, has plenty of other streams where tenderfeet can do better. Silver Creek is for champions...
...well have to junk some tenets of promotion by seniority. Stock Army retort to suggestions of promotion for merit has long been that such a system would encourage political toadying; but low-bracket officers must be found, even if dull-witted veterans are passed over to commission brainy tenderfeet. To ferret out officer material, all rookies are being interviewed in Big-Businesslike detail as to their education, past occupations, talent for furnishing public entertainment, favorite sports. Queries are couched in folksy phrases. Occupational aptitude quiz: "Just what...