Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening sentence in the story really struck home ... I know just how tired the inhabitants of Kissimmee are of the stale jokes strangers make about their town's name. I know just how the citizens of Bird in Hand, Pa. brace themselves when an out-of-state car slows down and the smirking driver leans out and asks the way to the town of Two-in-the-Bush. I also . . . sympathize with all bearers of unusual Christian or surnames...
...Murray saw it, workers should not have to put up a red cent. He argued that anything they were forced to put up for their welfare would represent a deduction from their take-home...
...tons of fuel and food into the old German capital. The airlift had taken the lives of 31 U.S. airmen, 39 British and seven German civilians. By the time it finally shut down last week most of the original airmen had long since been transferred home, crammed with the invaluable lessons of the largest air freight operation in history...
...last week found thin, poker-faced Iva Toguri ("Tokyo Rose") d'Aquino, 33, guilty of treason. During the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, she had traitorously taunted Pacific theater G.I.s with a radio broadcast: "Orphans of the Pacific, you really are orphans now. How will you get home, now that all your ships are sunk?" She was the sixth U.S. citizen convicted of treason since the end of World War II.* The minimum sentence Iva could draw under the conviction: five years in prison and $10,000 fine; the maximum: death...
...League Champions last year, appeared in Cambridge yesterday afternoon with a squad three deep in every position. So much material do the visitors boast, in fact, that for home games Coach Lefty James can field three complete offensive and defensive platoons, all of them good. Even an injury list as extensive as Harvard's has left Cornell's power virtually unimpaired...