Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting speech in his fighting home State of Texas, House Speaker Sam Rayburn let a secret out of the bag: the U.S. was producing over 3,300 planes a month...
...personnel being moved will provide themselves with a sleeping bag, food and water for one week, clothing for one week, iron rations, three extra pairs of shoes, a compass, a scout knife, a pistol and roller skates or a scooter. No motorized equipment or collapsible boats will be permitted. . . . The War Department will issue walkie-talkies...
...with the scout reports on the coming opponent and spends the rest of that day and most of every other in devising offensive and defensive formations that will hamstring the opposition. The briefcase he takes home every night means at least as much work as the average professorial green bag, but the results are published in the Sunday headlines rather than an obscure monograph. If the other team has shifted its strategy, there's always the opportunity for changing Crimson tactics in the 30 minutes between the halves. That, incidentally, is why Harvard is generally a second-half team. Revised...
...felt naked without bandages. Then they realized that 1) painful changing of dressings had stopped, 2) they could bathe themselves and get around. They began to like it. "We're all taking flit guns of that stuff back to duty," said a discharged sailor as he packed his bag last week. Dr. Pendleton now has invented a small heater, powered by a 25-watt light bulb, to melt the wax and make it available quickly in ships' turrets...
When a copy of Ethel Vance's melodramatic Escape arrived in France (1939), a kindly English lady carried it up the stairs of a hotel in her knitting bag, laid it before her ailing fellow-traveler-auburn-haired, blue-eyed Novelist Grace Zaring Stone (The Bitter Tea of General Yen). Mrs. Stone was convalescing after pneumonia, and the lady thought it would be nice to read Escape aloud to the invalid. "You can't possibly have read it," said the lady to protesting Patient Stone, "it's only just come into the lending library." Says Novelist Stone...