Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frigate Constellation, the U.S. Navy's oldest ship, celebrated its 150th birthday. Tied up at a Boston Navy Yard dock next to the U.S.S. Constitution (which was saved from destruction in 1830 by Oliver Wendell Holmes's impassioned "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!"), the Constellation was mastless, and badly in need of a "complete rebuilding." The Navy hoped that "patriotic societies" would come to her rescue...
Joseph Stalin issued a birthday proclamation: "[Moscow represents] the liberation movement of toiling mankind from capitalist slavery. . . . Agents of imperialism are trying, in this way and that, to provoke a new war. [But] it is known that peace-loving peoples are looking to Moscow with hope as the capital of a great peace-loving power and as a mighty pillar of peace...
...trolleys were presented with the Order of the Red Banner, while the Stalin Water Supply Station received the Order of the Patriotic War, First Class. Pilgrims from all over Russia and foreign emissaries from such diverse capitals as Rome and Bangkok were on hand. From all over Russia came birthday presents to the revered capital-gleaming new trolleys, carloads of cabbages, carrots, tomatoes and flour, which were sold in the street at unusually low prices...
...Cassino, which then seemed safe from Allied bombs. Just before the ancient Benedictine monastery was bombed to rubble, German commanders ordered the art shipped to Rome. But one freightcarful rumbled right through to Berlin; some of the boys in the Hermann Goring Division figured it would make a nice birthday present for the boss...
...help of his folksy stunts. He held annual breakfasts for grandmothers, sponsored school essays and let winners come to dinner with Bob Herberger and boss one of his departments for a day. He also had a deft touch with employees. He bought each one a cake on his birthday, gave brief parties in the store and held ten-minute get-togethers each morning to plan selling strategy. Bob's technique paid off: his St. Cloud store sells 3½ times the national average per square foot for stores in its class. Last year his small-town chain grossed...