Word: ca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assembly, heaved in the lashing seas. In its stinking coffinlike holds, along the rusted decks and companionways, deep in the engine rooms and even in the ancient, rotting lifeboats high in the davits, 3,854 refugees, 591 of them children, struggled for life. In a small armada of launches, caïques, fishing smacks and rowing boats, they had left tiny coves in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece, to be picked up by the ship...
...Only once in 30 years (in 1930) had Pontiac ever voted anything but Liberal. But last week, in a by-election to fill a vacancy caused by M.P. Wallace Reginald McDonald's death, Pontiac turned the Liberals out. The winner was a Social Creditor, Real Caouette, 29 (pronounced Ca...
Most Paraguayans are illiterate and speak the Indian tongue, Guarani. But the country counts eight daily newspapers, 13 radio stations, 17 movie theaters. In rural regions, entertainment includes dancing, chicken fighting, the drinking of caña (made from sugar cane), personal combat, general camaraderie. This program habitually starts at noon Saturday, ends at midnight Sunday...
Gone was Madame Baby's; gone was Lillian Russell (whose sleekly gowned and strategically bulging figure was not unlike her namesake's); her menage at 92 Ca-dieux Street could entertain whole conventions of tourists at once. Gone also was Madame Cesar's in the more exclusive West End. Only a memory was Madame Alice's where employes and customers alike had been required to wear evening dress...
Eversharp, which has threatened for months to bring out its pen, finally did. It claimed all the usual tricks for its CA (Capillary Action) pen, such as writing under water. It also boasted: 1) a cartridge-type refill; 2) choice of different colored inks; 3) a higher price, $15 plus jewelry tax. Eversharp had spent $2,000,000 for research and for the North and Central American rights to the Biro pen (TIME, Aug. 21, 1944), forerunner of the present crop of pens. But what Eversharp had got for its money was not clear, as new ball pens were turned...