Word: hives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sullen summer days, when rain falls and clouds gloom over Long Island, the Army's Mitchel Field is a hive of brown, earthbound pursuit planes. With their tails low, their tapered fuselages and wings tilting toward the grey sky, the P-40s on the grass and the paved tarmac look unnaturally still; they seem always to be straining for release and flight...
...prerogatives as a gentleman and scholar are great. In much of his verse he is not above writing like a dandy in a Conning Tower. At his plenary best -in Mother Liquor and Yellow Chartreuse, for instance-he can speak of life as a bee might speak of its hive. He can also give masterly expression to his generally impeccable distastes, as in his Lines on Anyone's Lines along Certain Lines: Is this the shape Of the sour grape? Perhaps the most uncommonly good poems in And What's More are a half-dozen among a group...
...deep harbor, Valetta, after the Battle of the Sicilian channel three weeks ago (TIME, Jan. 27). Day after day German dive bombers returned. At first they just attacked the crippled Illustrious. Then they began going after port installations and defenses in general. The British, hunting down the Stuka hive at Catania, Sicily, raided it many times to try to smoke the attackers...
...Torsten Kreuger, brother of the late gross match king, owns two important Stockholm dailies, Aftonbladet and Tidningen. Torsten Kreuger hates all those who helped to strip him of Ivar's properties, believes the House of Morgan is a hive of Jewry, means to get even...
Proudly Thomas Edison's home town, Port Huron, Mich., previewed this picture in three movie houses simultaneously on the eve of the 93rd anniversary of his birth. The Port Huron of the picture is a less appreciative human hive with no movie houses. Its citizens seem to have little else to do but torment Tom Edison. Even Tom's kindly father (George Bancroft) begins to look askance at his gifted offspring, who is universally called "addled" or "tetched." Mother Edison (Fay Bainter) explains the unhappy state of affairs: it is because "Tom is looking for causes, not effects...