Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life is almost entirely past, and having had close-up experience with the birth and development of the quick-lunch movement in New York (as a customer) I am bound to offer a correction to one statement in your glance at the history of the Childs' restaurant chain: "When they went into business there was nothing between carrying your own lunch to work or eating at a leisurely expensive 'continental' restaurant." [TIME, June...
...Childs brothers were employes of Dennett . . . they learned all the tricks and started their own chain, minus the prayers and texts...
...roaring overhead to make photographs in his P-38 Lightning, beheld a vast, fascinating panoply of war spread out beneath him. Allied warships* were cruising in toward shore, turning loose murderous salvos at the enemy coast, then swerving out to avoid coastal defense batteries. The ships had kindled a chain of smoke and flame extending ten miles inland...
...neat farms fitting into each other, farmers at work. It took iron control to pass up "the biggest, fattest-looking aircraft carrier" the crew ever saw. Every inch of shoreline was wharf, crowded with yachts and heavy ships. They flew low over the roofs toward the first of their chain of four targets. Four times the red light on the instrument board blinked, as each bomb was released. Lawson looked back once, saw a steel smelter "puff out its walls and then subside and dissolve in a black-and-red cloud...
Lawson can only call it "the incomprehensible machinery of Chinese aid." But it was not machinery. A chain of human beings, protective, silent, efficient, carried them from one hiding place to an other. For almost two months, Lawson and his crew were handed across a vast stretch of China by litter, flatboat, junk, stretcher, sedan chair, charcoal-burning truck, bus, station wagon, train, plane. Most of the time, young Dr. C., indefatigable, kind, intelligent, was at their side. Several days after the raid he had walked all night, 26 miles, and all day, 26 miles back, to bring the American...