Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Food seems to be the determinant for London office vacationists, several of whom, like Bureau Chief John Osborne, have already fled to the lusher larders of Switzerland or Ireland. Others will follow, including homesick Correspondent Eric Gibbs, who writes: "A log cabin, a Minnesota lake fringed with evergreens, blue sky, a hot sun, lots of sizzling bacon and fresh (not dried) eggs-those are the main elements of the holiday I'm planning. Reason: they're in short supply here. Transportation should be easy. I leave London in the afternoon, am due to reach Minnesota next evening. Then...
...millions of such little defeats, begotten by the great defeat, the mood of Germany today is compounded. The Germans gave the last ounce of their strength to follow men who proclaimed themselves their leaders. They find little strength within themselves now that these leaders are ignominiously dead & gone...
...then transfers its listeners to CBS Barcelona and Commentator Amerigo Vespucci. Comments Vespucci: "It is impossible to conceive the full significance of the news we have just heard. The land which Admiral Colón has just reached is Cibango, or the legendary island of Japan. . . . Shortly many will follow [him]. I will be among them...
...critical perceptions are sometimes bemusing: she once described Bob Hope as "our American Noel Coward." "For more than 2,000 years," she once intoned reverently, "Jews and Christians all over the world have tried to follow in the footsteps of our Saviour...
...Alfonso Lopez, of Colombia, objected that "it is idle to think that if the big five cannot agree among themselves that they will follow a non-permanent member...