Word: boil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week efficiency experts still boggled at breaking down to a pronounceable status the name that still tops all, Paul McNutt's Office of the Coordinator of Health, Welfare, Nutrition, Recreation & Related Defense Activities. No one knew how to boil down the OCHWNRRDA into anything less...
...card had been received fortnight before by a professional soldier, Sergeant William Lester White of Fort Benning, Ga. Sergeant White read it. boiled over, then sent the card with a letter to General George C. Marshall, an old friend. What caused Sergeant White to boil over was the card's message: "Write today to President Roosevelt . . . that you are against our entry into the European war. (Signed) Senator Burton K. Wheeler...
...Like a boil on Britain's elbow is highly vulnerable, belligerently neutral Eire, too close for comfort across the Irish Sea. Like a carbuncle on Eire's neck are the six counties of Northern Ireland. Last week both ached and pained like fury...
Toward the end of last summer Brigadier General Holland McTyeire ("Howlin' Mad") Smith of the Marines, an impatient man in any weather, almost came to a boil. Chunky General Smith wanted to take his First Brigade of Marines for needed training in the outposts of the Caribbean, where they might later see action. Yet somebody in Washington demurred. Reason: there was no housing for troops near Guantanamo, on the southeast coast of Cuba, where General Smith proposed to set up training headquarters...
...Southern types the result was "a great cleanness and decency . . . one of the most pleasant things that ever grew up on American soil." But under the political and moral pressure of the Yankee this sense of honor became incandescent and ran wild. The passion for rhetoric came to a boil; the Fire-Eater went to Washington (and has never left it); Jehovah became a tribal God and the South His last great bulwark; the Civil War was Armageddon...