Word: busyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Detroit, Sir Oliver addressed a meeting of state officials. Speaking of his countrymen, he said: "We have not acquiesced in our difficulties. We have not sat down under them. We are grappling with them . . . Think of us as busy, lively, controversial, changing and resolutely on the job."
"I don't think so," replied Mrs. Gottwald. "My husband is so busy. But we shall send him a telegram."
MacWilliams checked the weather and the military situation. A chalked caution on the briefing board read: "Suchow general situation calm. Fighting going on southeast ten kilometers away. Never circle over or come down to look at fighting area." MacWilliams stopped to talk with other pilots warming their hands over a...
Winston Churchill had a busy week. Three days before his 74th birthday, he donned jodhpurs, fortified himself with rum punch and galloped off to the hounds astride a borrowed horse. Churchill's inevitable, square-crowned Russell hat was jammed well down on his head, his equally inevitable cigar clenched...
Last month they got their first tip. It came from a high-school teacher who had spent two frightening weeks in a Boston mansion--a house that still stands on a busy Back Bay street, boarded-up and lonely.