Word: jus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jus' keeps rollin' along...
...cable still not answered, Champion Pauline Betz was outlawed from amateur tennis. "I'm not going to sit in a corner and cry about this," she said. But an hour later, at a sidewalk café on the Champs Elyseés, her little glass of jus de fruits was still untouched in front of her and Pauline seemed undecided what...
...from Caesar to his noble and valiant adversary Cassivellaunus, or that by any mystical communion a spark of the Virgilian light of empire was tended through the centuries in Merlin's cave. Yet somehow the grand ideals of Roman dominion have not been lost in the modern world: jus, the conception of a law that should transcend the limitations of the small people who first conceived it, and become at last the guarantor of justice to all sorts and conditions of men; imperium, the principle of a dominion that can enable all manner of races, languages and faiths...
...Jus Romanum, Imperium Romanum, Pax Romana-by changing the adjective Britain has given to each of them a changed flavor and connotation. But that is only because the tradition at the heart of them is a living thing, and grows continually. After two thousand years an imperial people can with a clear title claim its spiritual ancestry...
...restaurant kitchens to a crowded basement dressing room to shed his sweat-drenched shirt and gnaw barbecued ribs served on paper plates. On hand are a trunk of linen handkerchiefs, a dozen pairs of shoes ("They got to cool off"), and a typewriter. He says his hobby is "jus' typin'"-a typewriter has so many more keys to play with than a trumpet...