Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brightly hop-skipping from one thought to another, as her practice is in press conferences, Eleanor Roosevelt said: "It doesn't help a country to have families with twelve children and no food; it helps to have whatever number of children they can feed and educate decently...
...service, graduated 240th in his 1923 class of 261, made the air grade by reason of his superb physical condition (he is a lithe 165-pounder), became one of the Army's crack attack pilots and instructors. He met his wife at a West Point hop. They have a son, 16, who wants to go to the Academy, and a daughter...
...Dear Mom. . . ." Stephen Burdette Smith had to lie about his age to get into the Navy back in 1919. He was just 16 when he went off to boot camp at Great Lakes. In 1927, at aviation school, he took his first uncertain solo hop. Fifteen years later Chief Machinist's Mate Smith flew off the Enterprise against Jap-held Kwajalein, and on June 3, 1942, worrying about a photograph he had meant to send to his wife, Smitty in an old TBD chugged into the Battle of Midway...
...crutches throw baseballs at dummies of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito. In another, men with hooks for hands, in airplane splints and on crutches take a half-hour calisthenic drill : "Hup, hoop, heep, one; hup, hoop, heep, two. . . ." The men whistle when a girl goes by. In the wards, they hop around playing shuffleboard and indoor golf. Some of those still in bed play darts, watch movies. A Red Cross worker brings a birthday cake with candles to a smiling 24-year-old whose leg is fastened to a weight and pulley. In the recreation hall others hear a lecture...
...this week the Air Transport Command's North Atlantic division, in ceremonies at bases from Maine to Iceland, will mark the opening of its second winter of regularly scheduled operations. A flight to Europe, winter or summer, is now as routine an operation as a hop from New York to San Francisco...