Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anything except cows were hit by British bombs, a wag wrote to one of the papers urging the erection of a monument to "Goebbels' Unknown Cow." After German airplanes and anti-aircraft batteries had worked over The Netherlands for two hours to bring down a runaway British barrage balloon, somebody cracked: "The poor thing finally burst from laughter...
...stinging blown sand they lay, a polyglot army: Britons, Anzacs, Indians, even some Poles and Free Frenchmen, 40,000 men at most. They manned little tanks, big cruiser tanks, and cruel little balloon-tired armored cars capable of 40 m.p.h. and carrying six machine guns each for killing. Winston Churchill called them The British and Imperial Army of the Nile, but scattered on the dark desert, they looked insignificant. The well-armed Italians slept in their camps...
...sponge-the fern has futility-the anchor of hearts is ashore-the vulture disembowels. Salvarsan needles to the shamefully stricken-the wine is spilled-both eagles fly to the rescue. Shamefully she stands knee deep in classic water-her body eaten and pitted with holes. The preventative balloon trails sandbags. The body stands dissected by extant medieval concepts." Even without this explanation, the medallion still said enough about prostitution...
Still Up. From all the parks, many of the squares, some of the streets and rivers of the London area fat gentlemen named Goring, Tommy Farr, Lord Castlerosse, Puddin' Pie, Beefeater and many hundreds of others were still flying on wire leashes last week. The balloon barrage had proved its mettle. Not intended to bring planes down, but to worry them, to keep them up high enough for anti-aircraft fire and too high for accurate bombing, the balloons have won German respect to the extent that whole squadrons concentrate on shooting them down, and Berlin itself has begun...
Britons last week were thankful to the man they had once laughed down on the balloon idea: a brilliant Oxford professor named Frederick Alexander Lindemann. One of Winston Churchill's closest buddies, who last spring used to give the Prime Minister relaxation by beating him at Monopoly and Lexicon, Dr. Lindemann has proposed many weird but useful theories of war. Fellow student of Einstein, such a wizard with figures that he can instantly square or cube root any large figure, he once worked out a mathematical formula for taking planes out of spins-which worked. He was thought...