Because it showed dead GIs wrapped in mattress covers, some officers tried to prevent soldiers in training from seeing it, for fear of damaging morale.

During WWII, GIs from Massachusetts who were stationed overseas shared the cookies they received in care packages from back home with soldiers from other parts of the U. S. Soon, hundreds of GIs were writing home asking their families to send them some Toll House Cookies, and Wakefield was soon inundated with letters from around the world asking for her recipe.

During World War II, The World Almanac could boast that it was read by GIs all over the world: between 1944 and 1946, at the request of the U. S. Government, The World Almanac had special print runs of 100, 000 to 150, 000 copies for distribution to the armed forces.

With the return of World War II GIs to the homefront, the need for post-secondary education became evident to officials of the Bremerton School District.

The US military has developed body armor for the working dogs who aid GIs in battle.

When Garlick and Cronauer's vehicle is stopped by a convoy of soldiers during a traffic jam, the GIs persuade him to do an impromptu " broadcast " for them, giving them a good laugh before they go off to fight.

More USO centers and clubs opened around the world as a “ Home Away from Home ” for GIs.

The cartoons were intended for an audience of soldiers ( as part of the bi-weekly Army-Navy Screen Magazine newsreel ), and so are quite risqué by 1940's standards, with minor cursing, bare-bottomed GIs, and plenty of scantily clad ( and even semi-nude ) women.

Some resourceful GIs found that a crude crystal set could be made from a coil made of salvaged wire, a rusty razor blade and a pencil lead for a diode.

However, this has been proceeding slowly, and while some GIs have been protected in Australia, others are still available for use ( primarily for products that have always been called that ).

Lustron houses are prefabricated enameled steel houses developed in the post-World War II era United States in response to the shortage of houses for returning GIs.

GIs were able to study at the college for two years before moving to another college to receive their diplomas.

Olive drab was the color of the standard fighting uniform for US GIs and military vehicles during World War II.

It has served as a training facility since that time, predominantly in gunnery and the associated discipline of Parade Training leading to the situation where Gunnery Instructors ( GIs ) were responsible for Parade Training throughout the fleet.

A fighting program for GIs.

When the Americans arrived in Britain, black-marketeers, ( called Wide boys or Spivs ) made deals with GIs for stockings, chocolate, etc.

Due the influx of returning GIs, there was a two-year waiting list for admission, and Koenig spent this time studying at Pasadena City College until he was finally admitted to USC in 1948.

However reprimands were filed in the dossiers of several GIs for the failure to report his death.

Geographical indications law restricts the use of the GIs for the purpose of identifying a particular type of product, unless the product and / or its constituent materials and / or its fabrication method originate from a particular area and / or meet certain standards.

In 1994, when negotiations on the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (" TRIPS ") were concluded, governments of all WTO member countries ( 155 countries, as of 10 May 2012 ) had agreed to set certain basic standards for the protection of GIs in all member countries.

Usually, after the team was sure that the station could be run by the local GIs, they returned to Honolulu for reassignment to another location.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

All of her movements were careful and methodical, partaking of the stealth of a criminal who has plotted his felony for months in advance and knows exactly which step to take next in the course of the final execution of his crime.

She could not scream, for even if a sound could take shape within her parched mouth, who would hear, who would listen??

`` You mean anyone who stood up for his rights '', Curt said.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

These were the ones Keith sought out -- the loners, the ones who killed for the joy of it, like himself.

and Robinson Roy, who had gone down this line ten minutes before to set a new depth record for the free dive, was already back on the surface.

As he reached for the door there was a knock on it and when he opened he found Artie, who came in and sat down on a bunk.

Once and for all he'd finish this marine who would not die.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

Blue Throat, who had ruled the town with his six-shooter for the last six months, certainly had no intention of relinquishing his profitable dictatorship.

He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.

It was our hope to educate him and to give him his freedom when the right time came, for he was a bright and friendly youth who seemed worthy of our interest.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.

Wisman, who has had the chief controller's job for four years, calls the signals for a team operating three rows of dull-gray consoles studded with lights, switches and buttons.

I persuaded an Australian friend who had lived `` outback '' for years to take me to see some aborigines living in the bush.