Word: hoards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were told to register for emergency labor service. The unbombed were urged to give their extra clothing to the bombed-out. "The war will be decided in the next few months; it is no longer necessary to hoard reserves," the solicitors explained. Agile little Joseph Goebbels told the hungry: "If you haven't enough vegetables, get' stinging nettles from the meadows...
...news was bad for Canada, worse for the U.S. Like a modern Joseph, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics warned: Canada's once-plentiful hoard of feed grain (oats and barley) had been "severely trimmed" by heavy domestic demand, exports to the U.S. Next year there will probably be little enough for Canadian livestock, let alone the U.S., which needs all the Canadian feed...
...highly compressed wads of $20, $50, $100 and $1,000 bills sprang out. His closer chums guessed that Thompson, a son-of-wealth, had accumulated some $3-to-4,000,000 before he became mayor. But his estate was preliminarily evaluated at only $150,000. His safe-deposit box hoard to date...
White-haired, 63-year-old Carl Van Vechten is as incurable a collector as his own Peter Whiffle. But he usually gives everything away. The New-York Public Library has his boyhood hoard of cigaret pictures. Fastidious, unpredictable Van Vechten does not regret having abandoned musical criticism at 33 (because he thought he was getting too fond of Strauss waltzes to be ,really judicious) or novel writing at 52 (because he had had enough). He is busy with photography, a craft in which he has dabbled since 1895 and of which he is now a top-flight practitioner. His forthcoming...
Instead of gobbling their meager food, the Leningrad children hoard it. They slowly drink the liquid part of their soup first, then slowly eat the bits in the bottom of the dish. Often they crumble their bread into matchboxes to be munched furtively later...