Word: chimneyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Busy pedestrians, cyclists and trams crowded the streets. The coffee houses did not yet have cream, but they were free of the hated Nazi "chimney sweeps" (black-uniformed SS men). Bookstores exuberantly displayed volumes banned by the Germans. Every day a thousand news-hungry people trooped to the U.S. Information Service office, hoping to find American papers and magazines. At night people gathered before the charred City Hall to hear a band play Smetana's stirring Ma Vlast-My Country...
...bowler-hatted chimney sweep, Harry Cowley, 60, called "The Guv'nor," blew the lid off Britain's housing problem. In Brighton, jampacked seaside resort, a posse of 400 self-styled Vigilantes (all local war veterans), headed by Cowley, took the law into their own hands. Into three empty, habitable houses, they moved the families of servicemen. The moving was done at night, with hand barrows, in defiance of the law. But the tenants could not be ejected without lengthy eviction proceedings...
...Nazi pit had yet been plumbed. Still ahead, near Munich, lay Dachau the unspeakable, on whose walls an inmate had once scribbled: "This is the camp where you enter by the door and leave by the chimney...
...puzzling light. In a house a block from the tanks Mrs. Charles Flickinger plugged in her vacuum cleaner, and started back. At the same instant the walls glared red and the curtains caught fire. A surveyor stared at the towering flames, automatically sighted past a factory roof and a chimney and found the fire reached to 11½° above the horizon. He pulled out a slide rule and calculated its height-2,800 feet. Within minutes crowds of men, women & children were leaving their homes to hurry wildly along the sidewalks, clutching bundles of belongings. The wail of fire...
...Water. In Bournemouth, England, Mrs. Dorothy Banner cleaned her chimney, found wriggling in the soot alive, 10-in. golden carp...