Word: bloomingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's obliging Congressman Sol Bloom quietly dropped a bill into the hopper. Three days later, before Chairman Bloom's friendly Foreign Affairs Committee, Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr. spent three pleasant hours citing Lend-Lease accomplishments (TIME, Feb. 1), tracing the flow of U.S. goods on a map which made committee members proud. For the few challenges hurled his way, Ed Stettinius had ready answers...
Later reports indicated that Intelligence was on an idyllic Hawaiian holiday. On Saturday, Dec. 6, a Japanese resident who had never before filed press dispatches telephoned a Tokyo newspaper, gave a report on weather, patrols, and "poinsettias and hibiscus in bloom" (battleships and cruisers in the harbor). For a week the Japanese consul had been sending an excessive number of cables to Tokyo...
...someone bail out in a parachute. But what they saw was the transport's tail assembly. Then the airliner screamed crazily earthward, careened into a mountainside. The wreckage burned for five hours; the three crew members and nine passengers, including Songwriter Ralph Rainger (Moanin' Low, Love in Bloom), were dead...
...millions of U.S. eyes & ears focus on the approaching World Series, the plaguey question is: Will there be baseball next year? After six more grinding winter months of war, will ball parks bloom in the spring again...
...wants to get a liberal education in the humane tradition is on an almost hopeless quest. In the sciences he is perhaps worst off: the physics department has been converted into a technical school for the Signal Corps, and budding Einsteins are nipped before they can begin to bloom. That this step was necessary makes it no less unhappy. In the social sciences, specific war service programs are taking men from more theoretical pursuits, and the best teachers are being drained off to Washington. In the humanities, the earnest searcher after truth finds himself handicapped not only by a diminished...