Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came back that night. She was all right but later in the Anderson, when They started coming over again she fell completely apart. She recovered enough in the morning to replace lost rations and then go to the Town Hall to get her glasses replaced. But two hours later the local warden came to the factory looking for me to say Kit's in a house up the road all collapsed again. Sort of delayed shock, I suppose you might call it. So I packed Andrew up and took them both down to Puddleston...
...worst that one V-1 flying bomb could do was done in London last week. It streaked down during the noonday rush on a shop-lined street. Its 2,240 lbs. of TNT blew apart a crowded restaurant, filled the air with knife-edged shards of splintered glass. The blast wrenched off the top deck of a bus, tore apart another bus. Passengers were dazed, their clothing afire...
...Uncle Joe" promptly adopted it. Just as promptly it was dubbed in arsy-versy army lingo, "Operation Mallory Major." It was a sequel to "Operation Strangle" (TIME, May 8), in which German supply routes to central Italy were torn apart in preparation for the push on Rome...
Only one building had not been blown apart-the small inn. In its basement were big casks of wine and rows of bottles. There each night went one U.S. outpost patrol. Thither also (at a different hour) went one German patrol. The patrols never met. They spied on, but never surprised each other. It was too good a thing to be ruined...
...that lady!" A correct answer stirs the Doctor to the joyful cry: "Pay that lady 15 silver dollars!" One night he innocently asked a man to tell him the principal use of cowhide, expecting "shoe leather" for an answer. Said the contestant: "To keep the cow from falling apart." The nameless hero took the audience's heart and a pocketful of silver dollars...