Word: denning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally brought out his wife who just got in from Minnesota and it's no wonder that he hasn't put in much time in Thayer N-68 of late ... He even played his room-mates the dirty trick of taking his radio over to the Lil Woman's Den...
...night, in raid or heavy attack upon key production centers, you will make it clear to them that they have not alighted in the poultry run, or in the rabbit farm, or even in the sheep fold, but that they have come down in the lion's den...
Tulips & Terror. Hollanders forsook their tulips for daisies, wore them in their buttonholes, painted pictures of them. The daisy was their badge of allegiance to the House of Orange and exiled Princess Juliana, whose new daughter was named Margriet (Daisy). In Berlin the Sunday promenaders on Unter den Linden strolled past the bomb-pocked buildings and the windowless houses left by Allied bombers...
...Army reached Berlin tomorrow, most diplomats, from Herbert Hoover to Henry Wallace and back would be anxious to see the wave of Comrades recede from Unter den Linden as soon as possible. But how far back do they hope and expect a victory-flushed Red Army to go? If not all the way back, what is to become of Poland's claim for her pre-war eastern boundary? To date this is the most perplexing boundary problem facing the United Nations. Aside from the claims and counterclaims of the Polish government in exile and the master in the Kremlin, little...
...cellars of the old stone houses with horror in their hearts. Their city had been bombed 58 times before, but never like this (their district was the first to be hit by the R.A.F. two years and a half ago). They did not know what was happening along Unter den Linden; they could not hear, for bombs were raining all around them too. The airport was splashed with red flame. Fire and smoke mushroomed from the big power stations southeast of the field...