Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mermaids Again? In Los Angeles, seasoned salts were baffled when the U.S.S. Caliente's heavy anchor chain got itself tied into a perfect lover's knot, had to be "untied" with acetylene torches...
Last week Spinster Eleanor McClatchy, third-generation queen of the Bee (and president of a humming little chain of three California papers and five radio stations), had a bright little idea for making the drones work better. She had recorded music piped in: loud and animated in the composing room, soft and restful in the city room. One sour newsman, after hearing out Ole Buttermilk Sky, said it didn't do a thing for his writing...
...degree, Robert Gordon Sproul is president of one of the world's largest universities. He has held the job since 1930, now gets $17,500 a year. Businesswise, back-slapping Bob Sproul (rhymes with jowl) acts like what he is: the capable sales manager for a mammoth educational chain-store (the University of California, with eight campuses, 38,864 students...
Reading about the Arctic trials of the U.S. Army's Operation Frigid, Americans of both hemispheres inevitably wondered about the state of their common defenses. For instance: What about the chain of bases the U.S. had constructed for hemispheric security during World...
...Workers Opposition Movement; now she gave what looked like a coy explanation of why she took so long to be converted to Stalinism: "Stalin . . . always seemed engrossed in his thoughts, so that when we met him, we hesitated to accost him for fear of interrupting his chain of thought...