Word: landed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebrate his return to the U.S., Ambassador Josiah Marvel Jr. thought he would give the kind of party Copenhagen's diplomatic corps would not so soon forget. It was a costume ball at which the guests came in the peasant garments of their native land. To set the proper mood, the ambassador had tethered a live cow in the hall of "Rydhave," the stately ambassadorial lodge...
They were the earnest faces of last year's freshman and junior varsity squads, of House football players and returnces from the never-never land of probation. And they were all trying to get berths on a varsity squad which has lost only three of its first 30 men--trying so hard that they tripped over each other in the sprints and banged heads in the blocking drills...
...driven from Czechoslovakia after the last war. He is an old Social Democrat, 64, grizzled, tough and thirsting for revenge. "Would I fight!" he exclaimed. "Give me the chance! All three million of us are waiting for the war-that is the only way we can get back our land. Give us the arms-and we will drive the Russians from Berlin before they can even lace their boots!" Loud though it rings, the voice of Jilka is not yet speaking for Germany, nor even for that nationalism which is resurgent. That could happen if the agony of today...
...Gastonia, N.C., his father's home town, and got a $120-a-month job in a cotton mill. After talking local citizens into adding $80,000 of their own money to his, he bought the mill. During a real-estate boom, Love sold the mill's land and buildings at a small profit, then moved its machinery to a new $200,000 plant built by eager-beaver boosters in Burlington, N.C. There he branched out into rayon, then an infant industry...
...except for overland freight hops, experimental work and gasoline tanker duties on the Berlin airlift. The Civil Aviation Parliamentary Secretary gave a stark but realistic reason for the exceptions: "Those that have crashed have disappeared under the sea and there is no story to tell. If one crashes on land, there can be an examination of what is left of the aircraft, and those skilled in these matters may find some reason for the failure...