Word: haystack
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...east & west, bedded down in the town park, the jungle under the railroad water tank, in freight cars. Scholarly Roger Payne, 72, and plump Polly Pep were exceptions. Payne slept in the school doorway; Polly, the only woman delegate to the bindle stiffs' first postwar convention, picked a haystack...
...quietly searching out the alumni and local realtors for vacant apartment buildings and hotels and is further conducting negotiations with the Cambridge City Council for erection of a small-scale project on the site of the Botanical Gardens. But while the talk and search for a needle in the haystack goes on, the University's hesitancy to assume positive responsibility becomes apparent...
...Agents on the trail of a phony farmer saw a hand in a haystack, pulled out their quarry, who explained: "I was just getting ready to give myself...
...lich's sports arena was an oval enclosure formed by a mound eight or ten feet high, in which were three football fields and a concrete swimming pool. U.S. artillery and planes dealt the defenders a merciless beating. A pillbox under a haystack was unmasked and heavily shelled. But when the infantry moved in across open fields, German mines and machine guns time & again drove them back. A bridge over which the defenders got reinforcements was knocked out by the Ninth's cannon every day. Every night the Germans put it up again...
...haven't been a straw in our G.I. haystack long enough to have experienced the despair, nor am I qualified to express the sentiments of a veteran campaigner, but for my part portions of "When the Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead . . ." (TIME, April 24) deserve prominence atop an imaginary marble pedestal in our nation's literary hall of fame...