Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadest Grin. On May 7, 1945, Jodl and his colleagues arrived at Supreme Headquarters to surrender. As Kay recalls the scene: "I felt a shiver of excitement. I shoved Telek [the General's Scotty] under the desk, commanding him not to bark. [The Nazis] marched straight by without as much as a glance . . . sour-faced, glum, erect and despicable. They came to a parade-ground halt, clicked their heels and saluted . . . General Eisenhower stood stock-still, more military than I had ever seen him. His voice was brittle." When it was over, and "the Germans half-bowed, saluted...
...crowds will bark out a good loud "Hiep, hiep, hiep, hoera!" The woman who asked people to smile at her children will be Queen of The Netherlands...
Masquerader. He spent six months preparing to "pass." To stain his skin, he tried walnut juice, iodine, Argyrol, even an infusion of mahogany bark. When nothing worked, he shaved his pate and settled for three weeks in the Florida sun. Disguises were an old dodge to Reporter Sprigle, who won a Pulitzer Prize (1937) for uncovering Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black's past as a Ku Klux Klan member. Three years ago, elaborately roughed up as a black marketeer, he had exposed a meat-rationing scandal in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...
...President's proposals Wednesday followed from the conviction that his program has failed during the past year because he has provided no military bite to back up his diplomatic bark. Selective Service and Universal Military Training, he feels together with such men as James F. Byrnes and Walter Lippman, will provide the necessary bite. They will show both Russia and those European nations which may in the future fall into Russia's sphere that we "mean business." Russia is supposed to respond by displaying new respect for the potency of American policy; and nations such as France and Italy, theoretically...
...puffing Czech mastiffs at the Czech border. "You don't want to come over here. Look how thin I am. It's cold here and there's no food," said the dachshund. "Never mind," replied the mastiffs, "at least we'll be able to bark...