Word: colder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every restaurant, bar, cafeteria, and drugstore around the Square . . . . flags flapping in the breeze up Mount Auburn Street, winding themselves around the flagpoles . . . . masses of human beings seething over Larz Anderson Bridge before the game--eager, hopeful, warm, and equally happy; then afterwards--just a little tighter, a little colder, most of them a little less happy . . . . all of these added up to the first really big weekend of the year...
Whether-Man. In the Milwaukee Sentinel appeared this weather forecast: "It will be a little colder and a little warmer today than it was yesterday...
...Polish Lieut. General Wladyslaw Anders when he was returning in the general's super-Cadillac from delivering the general to the airport. Military supplies were stolen. A cafe owner was shot to death. Nervous citizens stayed out of alleys, wondered what would happen when the weather got colder and hungry desperadoes grew more desperate...
...Child Is Born. The sky had clouded over. It grew colder. Major Bill Rosson, of Eugene, Ore., whose men were not yet committed, came over the edge of the ditch. He sat down and bubbled: "We just pulled into that haystack ahead at 3 a.m. when an old woman in the farmhouse started having a baby. Doc Rhodes delivered the brat. He weighed about seven pounds-a nice kid. The Italians wanted Doc to name the kid and Doc decided to name him after me. We got in an interpreter and named him 'Guglielmo.' That...
...stammering loon of a 4-F whose stupidity is excelled only by his utterly selfless devotion. As Trudy watches him gratefully writhing in her clutches, she begins for the first time to love him. His efforts to save her good name, fantastically inept and deeply touching, would melt much colder hearts than hers. At the picture's end Norval, through no doing of his own, is at once ridiculous, pitiful and a national hero. As he shows up in his splendid new uniform, flashbulbed, bewildered, happy, homely, still unaware of what is in store for him, he receives...