Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mecheweami-ing into Wyoming. From the Indians, the U.S. has inherited one of its richest stores of names-those of no less than "26 states, 18 of the greatest cities, most of the larger lakes and longer rivers, a few of the highest mountains, and thousands of smaller towns and natural features." But most of these treasured names, Author Stewart explains, are by now about as Indian as the aboriginal forest trail now called Broadway. Even in their original forms they were often so old that their source and meaning puzzled the Indians themselves. Clipped and pummeled into pronounceable shape...
Killed in Action. Lieut. Alfred C. Blozis, 26, big (6 ft. 6 in., 250 lb.), towheaded champ shot-putter (his stillstand ing indoor record: 56 ft. 4½ in. in 1941), ex-pro football star (New York Giants); by German machine-gun fire when he waded through hip-deep snow to look for a missing comrade; in France's Vosges Mountains...
...What's wrong with that silly little mind of yours? Eh? What are you worry ing about? V-bombs? Fish queues? In come tax? Your health...
...Spain faces the dangerous possibility of a new fratricidal conflict as well as world isolation. . . . The only instrument capable of avoiding both threats and bring ing about a reconciliation of all Spaniards . . . is Spain's traditional monarchy...
...three trips through the U.S. lines with military information for the retreating Wehrmacht before he was caught. A U.S. Army court sentenced him to death; on review, the sentence was reduced to life imprison ment. When a U.S. correspondent saw Karl Fuzeler in his cell, he was quite will ing to admit that Germany had been beaten. But he had lost none of his belief in Hitler and Naziism, none of his conviction that Germans are superior to Americans, Britons, or Russians. The Allied armies happened to have more materiel-that...