Word: landmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Landmark. As Oxnard grew (1945 pop.: 18,979), Lucy's lone bawdyhouse expanded into a half-block of frame buildings, each well furnished, neatly painted and with window boxes full of geraniums. In Ventura County she became as well known as Oxnard's huge American Crystal Sugar Co. refinery. Lucy was the more spectacular sight. She wore bright, low-cut silk dresses from which her slatlike collarbones protruded, and she affected picture hats and high-heeled shoes. Her wigs were her pride -she had a long, black, wavy one, a short, straight, bobbed one, and for special occasions...
...Seattle the task was difficult. Boeing's Flying Fortress plant was sandwiched between busy Boeing Field and a natural landmark, the Duwamish River. Camoufleurs hid the field so trickily that veteran pilots had to ask the way in. Atop the Boeing plant went a 26-acre village made of chicken wire, canvas, lumber, painted chicken feathers. The town had 53 houses, stores, a gas station. Some of its streets crossed the field, went up Beacon Hill. The camoufleurs skipped the river...
...from Percy Knauth in Frankfurt came still another close-up report of these last days of war with Germany: "I have been in Frankfurt before, but covering it almost end to end today I found no single landmark I recognized. In these miles and miles of ruins there is nothing but dullness and apathy, a state that seems like a sleepwalking trance. The backdrop is complete destruction; the script is desertion in the face of danger. And all the propaganda slogans painted on the walls-'Frankfurt Stands Firm'-'Better Death Than Slavery'-are nothing...
...cellars, 'mouseholes,' cut from one house to the next." The fear of air power was branded deep on the people. They stammered out stories of the 25 major attacks driven home to their town, groped in their memories for the dates when this or that old landmark disappeared in a blockbuster's blast. Now even the put-put engine of a light plane sent shuddering children racing to their mothers. Cautiously, jerkily, the troops moved down the radial boulevards...
...education "for 20? a week" by copying the political cartoons in Puck and Judge. He sold his first cartoon to the Washington Post in 1889, got a regular job there two years later. In 1907 he switched to the Star, where his daily front-page cartoon remained a Washington landmark until...