Word: corral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impulse to drop the May-Johnson bill's loop over the beast's head, tie him to the corral fence and scramble for cover had been tempting. The nation was aching for an excuse to quit worrying about being blown up en masse. Both the President and the Army demanded immediate passage. So did an impressive knot of scientists-OSRD's Dr. Vannevar Bush, Harvard's President, Dr. James Bryant Conant and the Manhattan Project's Major General Leslie R. Groves...
Canada was profoundly uninterested in this arrangement. Its Government-owned Trans-Canada Air Lines plans to start flying the North Atlantic (Montreal to Prestwick, Scotland) on Sept. 1. By getting a fast start on this rich route, it expects to corral enough traffic so that it can meet all comers, will not have to split with any. In the face of Canada's determination, Lord Swinton reluctantly agreed to competition between B.O.A.C. and Canada on the North Atlantic. But he won his point on the remainder of the Empire routes, such as Britain to India, South Africa...
...least five of the six Latin American nations invited by President Roosevelt to join the war against the Axis (TIME, Feb. 12) headed toward the United Nations corral last week...
Butters tried chasing the beasts on foot with a mule whip-a process complicated by the necessity of hugging trees to keep his quarry from killing him. Finally, with the help of four other men and a hard-won technique, he drove 32 young buffalo into a corral...
...mystery that keeps you guessing, not only about who did it but about what the crime was. Detective Andrews shows a fine knowledge of everything from cheap Scotch whiskey to "Brooklyn dames" as he uses clues that would have stumped Sherlock Holmes to unravel the mess and corral the miss...