Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most front-line troops agreed with Willie. They had their own jeering nicknames for the even cheaper noncombat awards. The Asiatic-Pacific Theater ribbon was the "malaria bar with atabrine clusters"; the pre-Pearl Harbor service medal was the "Lend-Lease cross...
...latter part for women, and police saw to it that none of the early bathers overstayed their allotted time). During Midsummer Night, they would swarm through their vast woods by the thousands, singing wild songs that echoed over the countryside's countless lakes. Now the silent Lithuanian woods harbor the bitter "brethren of the forest," i.e., anti-Russian guerrillas...
...concrete step toward conquering the epithet of "glorified dormitories." The stated purpose of the expenditure is to "improve the livability" of the Houses and make men residing in them feel that they belong to an institution of educational fellowship--with more to offer than room and board. While few harbor delusions about the extent to which a $42,000 outlay can revitalize the House Plan, this is at the same time a definite opportunity which must be capitalized...
American Outlook's editor is Graham Hutton, who headed Britain's wartime Midwest Information Office in Chicago, and wrote a book called Midwest at Noon. Just before Pearl Harbor, he outshouted a hostile meeting of 300 Bundists in Chicago to get Britain's case heard. He is a zealot for both his country and the U.S.-but doesn't want his paper to be shrill. The idea for Editor Hutton's magazine had come from an American, George Oakes, 37, Oxford-educated nephew of the late New York Times Publisher Adolph S. Ochs.* Oakes...
...first power & light company (which ran only at night "except for one day a week for ironing"), became president of its second largest one in 1927. Now he had a hand in more than 42 different enterprises, ranging from the Jack and Mule Breeders Association to river & harbor improvements. But his greatest concern for the past 25 years has been that "every bolt, every nut, every spool of wire had to come from...