Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accomodates a pulled groin when an injured player settles his posterior into it. Two tin bath-tubs resembling those in vogue about 1875 are used to cool or heat a hurt leg, their whirlpools providing a gentle massage which increases the blood circulation. A number of pranksters have had epic water battles with the "fire hose" machine, used by the trainers to message pulled backs with its high-pressure stream...
...epic speech, no solemn act of President Roosevelt made the week memorable in history books. But the lull was not a rest. In Hyde Park, where at week's end the President applied himself to the private task of settling his mother's estate, he could count a goodly number of chores which he had put behind...
...historic statement of U.S. policy, Franklin Roosevelt last week told the world that the U.S. will defend not only Britain, not only the U.S., but China too. "Hitler's plan of world domination would be near its accomplishment today, were it not for two factors: one is the epic resistance of Britain. . . . The other is the magnificent defense of China. . . ." In effect, the President signed and sealed a new alliance. To the totalitarian Axis of Rome, Berlin and Tokyo, he opposed a rival, democratic Axis, reaching from London across the Atlantic to Washington, across the Pacific to Chungking...
...headed east across the Gulf. Presumably they hoped to clear the Florida Keys, make their way through the British blockade across 4,000 miles of open sea to an Atlantic port on the Nazi-occupied coast of France-a cruise some 800 miles longer than Captain Bligh's epic voyage with the loyal crew of the Bounty...
Last year's Battle of Britain will go into the books as one of the most epic-if not the most decisive-in history. It was like Marathon, Tours, the Catalaunian Fields-by every human reckoning the Nazis should have won. They did not, or if they did, they did not know...