Word: feather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stalingrad, whose defense lines for three weeks have remained relatively unchanged in the Don bend. Cutting the Volga at Astrakhan would be just as effective as servering it at Stalingrad. Between the German forces bulging east from Rostov and their river objective lie only rolling steppes, covered with slivery feather grass, ridged with few hills, marked by few towns. It is terrain eminently suitable for mechanized warfare. Part is scorching desert now, particularly as it slopes down to the salty Caspian: hard-baked land, offering scant obstacles...
Quetzalcoatl Vindicated. The finding of ancient Tula is a feather in the pith helmets of two Mexican archeologists who followed their hunch it was there in the face of learned opposition. Alfonso Caso, head of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, rejected the theory that the ancient Toltec capital had already been rediscovered in the famed ruins (also of Toltec workmanship) at Teotihuacan. So did a young, Cambridge-educated archeologist named Jorge Acosta, who had taken up digging after touring Europe as a champion tennis player. The Cardenas government chipped in 3,000 pesos...
...Long Island Sound's Larchmont Race Week: Joseph Merrill's Feather, in the International class; Romeyn Ever-dell's Star boat Bolt; Don Peterson's Comet Blue Peter (only boat in the Race Week fleet to take five straight races). Star class's Undertaker-Yachtsman Frank Campbell, too busy to compete in the entire week's races, came to life over the weekend: his Rascal breezed home first in the final day's racing, giving Campbell his tenth straight victory in the weekly Long Island Sound Y.R.A. championship series...
...with the usual human inertia and reluctance to fire anyone if he can help it. Under war pressure more workers can be released for more direct connection with the war effort. And if Washington would relieve business of such old-man-of-the-sea union practices as the famous "feather bedding" on the railroads, business would gain even greater capacity to produce...
...seeing the clear advantages of blimps on patrol: visibility of five miles in all directions, ability to see as far as 70 feet below the surface in clear water, to hover over such tiny clues as oil smears, a phosphorescent glow at night, air bubbles, or the telltale "feather" of the submarine's wake...