Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month, when the President dispatched Don to China, he told Julius A. ("Cap") Krug to "take over WPB and run it." Last week, when reporters asked if Nelson would come back to WPB, Cap Krug, busily reorganizing WPB up & down, answered in a hurt voice: "That's not a nice question...
...Montreal last week twelve men were named to help change other men's minds about the frozen cap of the world-the now-important Arctic...
Dust off an old-timey dunce cap for TIME'S editors whose progressive education evidently did not include the fact that nouns are declined, verbs conjugated and adjectives compared: TIME (Aug. 28), "a favorite Wall Street conjugation: 'dull, duller, Dulles...
...train stood on a siding at Halifax, N.S. In the observation car sat a pudgy little man in a visored naval cap, a cheroot in his mouth, his horn-rimmed glasses focused on a newspaper. Outside, a huge crowd swirled and pushed, straining against police lines. The crowd, dressed in its Sunday best, burst into song: first, Roll Out the Barrel; then There'll Always Be an England. Finally, the pudgy man, not relinquishing his cheroot, shuffled to the rear platform, acknowledged the crowd's cheers, and asked for Tipperary. The crowd gave it to him, while Winston...
...some large, open graves. Here were buried the bodies of the camp's personnel, hastily shot and buried on July 21 in the last hectic days before the Red Army closed in. The pits stank in the warm sun. There were skulls and a piece of a Red Army cap and a buzzing of large flies. Around the pits, in the grass, poppies were growing. Orange red poppies. Big ones...