Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is not a pleasant thing to write about," cabled the New York Times's David Anderson from Brussels, "but the people back home should be warned that the U.S. is not by a long way regarded as the land of saints and heroes...
Heinrich Himmler was found to have compiled a Who's Who for automatic arrest in the event of a German invasion of England. The Gestapo blacklist, discovered in his Berlin headquarters, ranged from Winston Churchill to Noel Coward and David...
...well-fed Venus by Titian at $55,000 tops the list. Going at $16,500 are two Carravaggios, Profane Love and David with Goliath's Head; Gauguin's The Green Man, and Bronzino's Eleanor of Aragon. Pieter Breughel's Amsterdam under the Snow is priced at $14,850; Bronzino's Venus and Cupid at $13,750; Antonio Moro's Portrait of a Man and a Manet still life, Flowers and Fruit, at $11,000 each...
Ever since David Bushnell invented the first underwater warship (the Turtle, which tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up the British frigate Eagle in New York harbor in 1776), naval men have dreamed of a true submarine, i.e., one which would practically never have to come to the surface. Last week Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal revealed that the Germans came dangerously close...
...road was also in constant use by two million nomadic savages, who were dead-shots with the kind of sling that David used against Goliath, and who spent their spare time stripping the copper wire off the line of telegraph poles. The nomads explained that they knew all about war: their ancestors had fought a dandy one against the Sumerians in 3000 B.C., and their ruling Khan unfailingly subscribed to the airmail edition of TIME...