Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead giveaway. When the quiz is first made up, asterisks are carried on the correct answers to avoid mistakes in the answer column, but these marks are, of course, supposed to be removed when TIME goes to press. This TIME the printers failed to sweep all the star dust under...
...recent relapse only when he lost his pills in Moscow. The importance of Hopkins' illness was in his position as a Washington influence. If a project has his approval, it cuts through Army, Navy and defense red tape, with absolute priority. If it has not his approval, dust gathers on it, important people forget it, its backers gradually fade away. When Harry Hopkins went to bed last week, many & many a defense project crawled in with him and lay down...
...There is still much to remind us of the days when we went from one building to another through dust and mud instead of on walks; when hurrying secretaries carried messages because there was only one telephone; of no electric lights in the dormitories. But now the Hospital is open and receiving patients and last Friday morning Dr. Gordon, Dr. Beeson, Dr. Scott, and Dr. Hawley made rounds for the first time," writes Dr. Gordon...
Then they ducked off into woods and fields, in an unholy fog of dust. As they passed tankers going to the rear, censor-able words were exchanged. Up front the Fourth's riflemen and machine-gunners scrambled down, moved forward, got into position...
David Fenwick is duped by the cheap, voluptuous city-girl whom he marries, forgetting what it's like to be weaned on coal-dust, and sacrificing his ideals of mine-reform for the frustrating and impotent life of schoolmaster in his native hamlet. Novelist Cronin is a scientist, and the generally powerful plot of this movie goes back to his painstaking delineation of character. But when scenario-writers-in the inconceivably heroic turnabout of the mine-owner, Barras, and again in a superfluous and mystical epilogue-attempt to expand a stirring argument for public ownership into a vague essay...