Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Elliott Burns (I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang) lost a plea for a Georgia pardon. Now a Newark, N.J. tax consultant, U.S. Fugitive No. 1 had the backing of Georgia's Governor Ellis G. Arnall, but the best the pardon board would offer was: "If and when the escapee surrenders . . . the board . . . will be happy to investigate...
They are strung in a double chain: the Radak, or Sunrise, group on the east; the Ralik, or Sunset, group on the west. They are run-of-the-Pacific, tropical atolls: low, narrow coral formations studded with is lets, enclosing calm lagoons where volcanic cones may once have jutted (see map, p. 26). Twenty years ago, when the Japs settled down to prepare for World War II, the islands had a population of 10,000 Kanakas, lazygoing, brown-skinned Micronesian fishermen and boatmen...
Four Tools. These men were tools, and behind each was a chain of higher and higher personages reaching up to the topmost ranks of Naziism's hierarchy. Steadily, implacably, the Soviet courts would follow up this chain. At Kharkov, the pattern of prosecution, trial and judgment was unfolded...
...navigator of a Flying Fortress, Captain Richard Davisson has 24 missions over Europe to his credit, has returned from all unharmed. Last week, in an air-base privy, Fortressman Davisson gave the chain a hurried jerk, brought down a Royal Doulton tank on his unhelmeted head, suffered an angry head gash. From barracks comrades came unsympathetic jeers, no recommendations for the Purple Heart...
...spoiled child, which he labored over more & more as it failed to work out, and which he grew more & more fond of as the other successful ideas raced on to practical accomplishment while the failure stayed in the laboratory. Old Peter Cooper's pet was a continuous chain drive for boats. He planned an endless chain, run by water power, along the Erie Canal. He got Governor Clinton's approval, and set up an experimental unit that pulled a boat eight miles an hour against the current of the East River. But farmers along the canal, who sold...