Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women sat quietly all day, all night; old women made gross by lives of toil, pale young women with high heels and disordered hair. They stared. Sometimes, with vague and automatic obedience, they drank coffee or ate sandwiches which were offered them. Sometimes a woman would unlock the padlocked chain on which her dead husband's street clothes had been hoisted to the washroom ceiling. She would take the clothes down, fold them, and leave. But the room stayed quiet-so quiet at times that the distant tolling of church bells, the twitter of sparrows in the rafters, could...
When Canadian Orange Crush, Ltd. needed help, he bought its stock (peak value: $4,300,000) for $43,000. Along with it he got a lawsuit filed by the Honey Dew chain of restaurants, in which Orange Crush had an interest. Quickwitted Eddie Taylor dropped in to see the Honey Dew board of directors. He came out a vice president. Two days later the president died, and Taylor got into...
...Nadia Boulanger is a spare, prim, grey-haired woman whose piercing eyes are frozen behind pince-nez. She dresces severely in black, brightened by a sunburst clip or a silver chain. When she talks, which is often, her hands are as eloquent as her speech...
...only schemes proposed thus far have substituted a chain-reacting pile for the furnace of an ordinary powerhouse. The pile's heat will generate steam to run a turbine. But this, thinks Dr. Hutcheson, may be only a better-than-nothing solution, carrying coal-era thinking into the atomic...
Once upon a time Mary Colum was Mary Maguire, Irish, red-haired and 18. "I got on the Dublin train," she says, "in my new blue ankle-length dress, my dead mother's watch fastened to a long chain and stuck in my belt. Attached to the chain was a silver Child of Mary medal and a ... silver cross, and nobody, not even a native of central Africa, could have failed to recognize in me the typical product of a convent school...