another 1964 "the whole nine yards"? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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This
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GXk_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=vVQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5
361,1242806&dq=whole-nine-yards&hl=en

is interesting.

"It must have been a lot of work to provide a little happiness for a lot
of guys, and we of the 'Whole Nine Yards' barracks want to thank you."

So, by 1970, the phrase was common enough in Vietnam to use as a name
for a barracks.

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> Previously, Sam Clements found a syndicated newspaper article about
> NASA slang by Stephen Trumbull (sometimes misspelled Trumbell}
> published on various April 1964 dates. It includes: "'Give 'em the
> whole nine yards' means an item-by-item report on any project." (The
> earliest known published idiomatic use of "the whole nine yards" is
> from 1962.)
>
> Currently, Google Books returns for the search "the whole nine
yards"--
> but not for the search "give * the whole nine yards"--a 1964 book,
> given here in its WorldCat listing:
> Aerospace pilot /
> Charles Ira Coombs
> 1964
> English Book Book : Juvenile audience 224 p. : ill., photos ; 22 cm.
> New York : Morrow,
>
> I have entered an interlibrary loan request, but if anyone else cares
> to look it up (WorldCat lists 122 libraries),
> feel free.
>
> Stephen Goranson
> http://www.duke.edu/~goranson
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