Word: bottlesful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For 13 years Hattie Wyatt Caraway sat quietly in the U.S. Senate, doing nobody any harm. The small, 66-year-old widow never seemed to change; she always sat still and demure in her billowy Victorian black dress; when spring came, she simply added a white embroidered collar. Her habits...
Belly wounds have priority on the operating tables. Nurses call the belly-wound ward "Wangenstein Alley," after the inventor of a stomach suction device. In the olive-brown twilight, Wangenstein Alleys look like Spanish moss forests, with double rubber tubes descending from bottles high above each bed to the patients...
Henry Agard Wallace, who warmed up to his Chinese visit (TIME, July 3) by playing three fast games of volleyball with Superfortress airmen, and incidentally gave some pointers to teammate Captain Henry ("Hank") Greenberg, peacetime baseball star, later gave some pointers on the American way of living: "Some American has...
Operation. The pressurized cabin of the B-29 is deflated during a bombing run. The crews plug in cords to their heated suits, don oxygen masks (the B-29 has, besides fixed valves, portable oxygen bottles to be carried when a man moves around, others which can be attached to...
The pleasant surprise of coming into the air-conditioned lounge had worn off, and the Vag stared idly at the drink in his hand, trying hard to keep his head above the current of nostalgia that was tugging at him. This sort of thing might be all right for other...