Word: en
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while the newspaper excitement was en, the hospital absentmindedly gave Salvatori a pass. He made a beeline for an Atlanta cafeteria, where customers and the press watched him eat seven orders of fried chicken, ten orders of French fries, nine glasses of orange juice, two quarts of milk, ten combination salads, five egg salads, two orders of olives, two glasses of iced coffee, two slices of watermelon, five orders of rolls and five slices of apple pie a la mode. Cost: $9.95. He was eating light, he said, because he had already had six candy bars and a quart...
...also the first evidence that Britain is in a hurry to carry out her export policy. The Austin will be followed by 20 more export models (which have chrome trimmings and leather upholstery, missing from domestic models) due in the U.S. within two weeks. Another 15 are en route to Argentina. Austi-Motor Co., Ltd. has been able to get its postwar jump on U.S. automakers because it really never stopped Austin production: the Austin-made British jeep, a utility truck, was built on the same chassis as the civilian models. Austin expects to turn out 8,000 cars...
From headquarters in Kunming, you beat your way 400 miles to shabby, weather-worn Kweiyang and thence to field headquarters, and you've come only half the way. There American Brigadier General Frederick Boye and Chinese General Tang En Po jointly deploy and dispose of Chinese and American personnel in combat. Their remote control runs another 400 miles to the quiet, fluid string of foxholes that is the front, inhabited by hungry Chinese infantrymen and grimy, filthy Americans...
Sovereignty, pervading San Francisco, dictated the charter's principle of "domestic jurisdiction." Under it, the world organization may reach into a country to get at the causes of war only when all the Big Powers agree that world peace is en dangered. The section finally agreed on gives a future Hitler a little less chance to prevent intervention simply by assert ing that his policies are "domestic." The principle of domestic jurisdiction bore importantly on future colonial questions, and Britain insisted on the restriction...
...first great test of the men-and the bravura sequence of the picture-confronts them unexpectedly, en route to North Africa, when their ship is torpedoed. They pass the test because they have become, almost unknowingly, trained and efficient soldiers. It is much later, after a stretch of pure boredom, that they meet their first hand-to-hand test as warriors. As they advance toward it, bayonets fixed, the picture ends...