Word: aproned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been neatly stacked like cordwood; in others the stiff, twisted remains had been heaped together as they fell. Some had been officers, some privates; all wore faded blue-grey uniforms and tarnished brass buttons with the Polish eagle still recognizable. Dr. Prozorovsky wore a white smock, an orange apron and red rubber gloves. Kathy had on a plaid skirt, an orange pullover sweater and garnet nail polish...
...Guadal, when some of the airmen were griping about the holes in the runway, Geiger walked down to an SBD (Douglas dive-bomber) spotted on the apron, climbed in. Without a single escorting fighter, the Old Man took the SBD off the flight strip, flew north to a village where the Japs were headquartered, dropped his 1,000-pounder, went home. His pilots got the idea...
...name of Abner Doubleday is Finn MacCool? Perhaps a first baseman Branch Rickey spotted in. Nellies Apron, Ark.? What's his batting average...
...Australia Wand found U.S. influence stronger than British. He dressed like a U.S. Episcopal bishop except on formal occasions, when he donned gaiters and apron. Australians liked him for his warm friendliness and for his excellent preaching. His Oxford accent is quite intelligible. He has no prim ecclesiastical mannerisms. His sermons are pithy applications of the Christian faith to workaday life. Each Sunday evening thousands of Australians listened to him on the radio; other thousands read his weekly articles in the Brisbane Courier-Mail...
...husky man inan apron (Mr. Grant) is always good for a laugh. When he is surrounded by knitting matrons who gravely inform him that purl is spelt pee-yew, the appeal is irresistible...