Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inch snowfall (TIME, Jan. 5) when the second storm hit. Fire-alarm boxes went out of whack. Transportation fell back to a medieval pace. Sixteen thousand houses in metropolitan New York and many thousands more in Westchester County and on Long Island were without heat. In ice-sheathed New Jersey a state of emergency was called, armories were thrown open to shelter the chilled citizenry, and children were ordered indoors because of the danger from broken high-tension wires...
Last week, the Palestine story began in New Jersey...
...Pier F in Jersey City, dock workers were loading 26 big cases, marked "Used Industrial Machinery," into the American Export Lines' Executor. The twelfth case slipped from the loading fork, crashed six feet to the concrete floor, and split open. Trying to repair the case, cooper Raymond Grimm found inside a package holding 50 one-lb. tins of TNT. They were labeled "U.S. Corps of Engineers-TNT-For Front Line Demolition Only." Customs men opened 25 other cases, found a total of 65,000 lbs. of TNT. Later in a warehouse in The Bronx, New York City police found...
...story continued in the land to which New Jersey's cargo was addressed. In Jerusalem's sacred Old Walled City, violent fighting broke out. Arabs claimed that the Jews started it, retaliated with "Molotov cocktails" (bottles filled with gasoline and ignited). At week's end, Jewish terrorists blasted Arab headquarters in Jaffa and Jerusalem, killed 34, wounded 100. At sunrise one morning, on the Mount of Olives, the Jews of Jerusalem buried their own dead of the last week's fighting, while British soldiers stood guard against Arab snipers. The living, among both Jews and Arabs...
...same number as on Chappuis' jersey...