Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seats there either, all night and half of the next day-contemplating my reservation, which I still held blissfully in my hand. I finally got a seat in the men's room of a Pullman car. Arriving at Springfield, Mo. ... I once again held a reservation for an upper berth, but was informed very pleasantly by the conductor that the people in Kansas City had had a slight mix-up and that John Q. Civilian was once again in my berth. I rode once again upon a collapsing suitcase into Atlanta, and decided to take a chance on reporting...
...they're the intelligentsia, the of the upper strata, the brain this battalion. Our PRIVILEGE LIST" has appeared thirty of our and have made the grade. We're proud of our sister scholars but has to stay home...
...went in with the first transport outfit to reach Sicily. . . . After the briefing some of the younger pilots had perspiration on their upper lips...
...Friend." Columnist Ernie Pyle discovered the Stevensons a few weeks ago, when he marveled at 25 Red Cross clubs-with lodgings, game rooms, snack bars, movies-which Bill had managed to set up in North Africa. And he wrote of Bumpy: "She is a sort of roving delegate, cheerer-upper, smoother-over and finder-outer for the whole Red Cross of Africa and half the Army...
Behind them, the "stage electrician" manipulated his switchboard. He could simulate every effect they might see on a war patrol: dawn, eastern horizon (the thin line of light which justifies the phrase "crack of dawn"); dawn, western horizon (an upper glow, quite different); fire at sea (a glow unmistakable once seen); thunder showers far off; gunfire ("Here's a cruiser coming at you," explained the CPO instructor, and the class watched the tiny, stabbing flashes grow brighter...