Word: coolers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes moved back & forth like those of spectators at a tennis match. Afternoons, they focused on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field; evenings, on St. Louis' Sportsman's Park. Home and office radios blared play-by-play descriptions; earnest discussions went on at every street corner and water cooler. The Dodgers and the Cards were going down to the wire in the closest of all National League pennant races...
...said the U.S. Weather Bureau, glancing up from its charts and instruments. A psychological illusion. In the eastern U.S., July and August had aver aged only about two degrees cooler than normal. West of the Mississippi, the sum mer was slightly warmer than usual...
Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo was as full of answers as a Quiz Kid. On Mutual's Meet the Press program last week, the Senator from Mississippi chattered like an angry chipmunk, made one admission he might regret in a cooler moment...
Inside his high-ceilinged office a gilt clock ticked off the minutes through five long days. OPA conferees haggled across the flat-topped table, flopped in the black leather chairs, shuffled over to the water cooler, loaded ashtrays with mountains of smoldering cigaret butts. Alben Barkley, squinting through the humid haze scribbled down the endless formulae of possible compromise. Around the corner, in the office of Senate Secretary Les Biffle,' OPAdministrator Paul Porter waited...
...lesson that dawn follows darkness and life rises again from the earth. And it was nice for turn-of-the-century housewives to glance up from the grits and bacon simmering on the stove and rest their eyes on the ancient world represented in Reading from Homer-somehow infinitely cooler and finer, and with more marble...