Word: bend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colorado, ranchers were getting in hay for the long winter snows; in Texas they were pitching horseshoes, getting ready for the fall roundup, looking over some of the finest Hereford cattle in the world at an exposition in Marfa in the Big Bend country. In Louisiana, where a Caribbean hurricane spread havoc last month, flooding out rice, breaking sugar cane, killing livestock, cotton picking started last week, the sugar mills tuned up, the first of the State's 47 fairs were opening, and at night the levees were studded with the bright fires of fish fries and shrimp boils...
...Park, that is as necessary as a tribute to Robert E. Lee once was in the South. But the Senator, who still farms land that he worked on as a boy, called it the iron road, the name given it by the people who followed it - "from the Great Bend of the Missouri to the banks of the Willamette, following the valleys of the Kaw, the Platte, the Sweetwater, the Snake and the lordly Columbia; fording streams . . . suffering hunger, thirst and sickness aggravated by strange diets and exposure - and leaving thousands of un marked graves beside the trail." Their trek...
...highlands and the broad, dark Hudson River. A few villagers who had been fishing for white perch pulled up their lines, strolled across the New York Central tracks to the little concrete platform of the Hyde Park railroad station. When the President's special train slid around the bend from Poughkeepsie, a cluster of 50 townfolk in light dresses, in shirt sleeves and slacks toed the edge of the platform. They left the graveled parking space free for Franklin Roosevelt. "We know where we're supposed to stand," chirped one cheerful gaffer...
...Emma R. Anderson, of Windsor, argued hopelessly that she had to get across to Detroit, where she owned a furnished apartment. Only in the most desperate cases were regulations relaxed. Seventy-year-old Mrs. Mary Stables, of Toronto, was allowed to pass because her son was dying in South Bend, Ind. By week's end confusion was relieved somewhat by the issuance of "alien identification" cards to Canadians with permanent U. S. addresses...
...tired of making the round of its half-dozen bars, listening to its own prolific gossip. Recently Hollywood found an exciting new interest-the war. Before the invasion of France most Hollywooders began (and ended) their reading of the press with the movie columns. Now they are beginning to bend an ear toward Roosevelt, Churchill and Reynaud with as much respect as toward Louella Parsons or Jimmie Fidler...