Word: laine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the British finally felt sure they were lending fighting aid to Russia for the spring campaign. Over the continent the weather had lain thick, and for a week Britain's long-range bombers had squatted glumly in their dispersal stations with no place to go. Handier ships-light bombers and pursuits-went out whenever there was a break. They picked at the pock-marked townson the invasion coast, ranged east to the Frisians off the Netherlands' coast, where they scratched a convoy and lost five planes...
...Thief, a deft, bubbling radio opera commissioned by NBC, first given in 1939; Four Saints in Three Acts, with Virgil Thomson's gravely melodious music to Gertrude Stein's nonsensical words; Tennessee's Partner, a Quinto Maganini opera on a Bret Harte short story, which has lain unperformed, unorchestrated since 1934; Aaron Copland's play-opera for schools. The Second Hurricane; Deems Taylor's Metropolitan success of 1927, The King's Henchman...
...happened to the Sea Otter'? Navy and Maritime Commission men, British agents had attended her trials. But their reports were not made public. This was the main reason that the Sea Otter became an "affair." For more than a week, a lengthy press release on the subject had lain unreleased on the desk of glum Mr. Knox. Said Mr. Powell ruefully: "I thought this Sea Otter thing was too small and unimportant to bother about after we had made our decision." The decision: thumbs down. Some of the reasons, from official files...
...final decision had lain with Canada. The U.S. was willing to put up the money -some $25,000,000 to $30,000,000-and willing to maintain the road until war ends. But Canada had not much liked the idea of an "alien highway" through its territory...
...course there had been hell to pay. But must every fishwife scream about it now? Why must five "guilty men" in the Palais de Justice at Riom be shamed, to appease hypocrites in Vichy who claimed never to have lain late abed, or Nazi interlopers whose dreams were always nightmares...