Word: groupers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good-natured, ineffectual Harry Woodring, an Oxford Grouper and an isolationist, seemed unable to grasp the imminence of war, proved to be an ineffective Secretary. Harry Woodring's inaction and Louis Johnson's burning desire for the job precipitated a three-year running feud between the two top men in the War Department...
...dwellers who have ever tried to get back to the land the easy way. It all starts off with the woes of Adman Jim Blandings (Gary Grant) & wife (Myrna Loy) as they suffer the beginning of an average day in their Manhattan apartment. Even for a $15,000 income-grouper, the Blandings apartment seems rather spacious (you could encamp a platoon of homeless veterans in the parlor alone); but the closet space is convincingly niggardly, and the bathroom problem is enough to tempt anyone to the wide open spaces...
...Million to a Quart. At first, fishermen made big hauls of redfish, mullet, and grouper, which fled into the shallow bays and inlets to escape the plague. But their catches stayed in the fish houses. People did not feel like eating fish...
...leave it alone; but Florida boosters would have considered themselves betrayed if he did no fishing. Flanked by his chief of staff, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (who likes to fish), he set out in a crash boat to wet a line. His catch: a 5-lb. barracuda, a grouper and a mackerel...
Many an Ally, remembering Darlanism in North Africa, was anxious over AMGOT. Some Britons were displeased with the choice of Major General Lord Rennell of Rodd as the real civil administrator of Sicily under General Alexander. A veteran diplomat, a banker and an Oxford Grouper Lord Rennell had been a friend of Italian big business, which backed Fascism. Said the New Statesman and Nation: "That he knows the country intimately may be conceded, but . . . will it be easy for groups which might organize a popular mass movement . . . to deal with...