Word: leaden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storm was rising over New Guinea. One day last week, through a cloud slit in the turbulent sky, a heavy-bellied Liberator (6-24) spied something to break the monotony of its patrol: 14 leaden ships upon a leaden ocean...
...There is nothing much to do except to work hard all day, then go to bed. Up at five o'clock, the troops eat a breakfast which may consist of French toast, Karo syrup, sausages and coffee. The world's loveliest sunrise is golden and purple and leaden. As soon as light appears ("back over there where home is") a faint flush of warmth pushes back the cool of night. By eight o'clock it is hot and sticky. Standard dress is a pair of khaki shorts, nothing more. The soldiers, sailors and marines are all brown...
...cemetery, six bareheaded youths—Private Weiner was only 18—carried the casket to a green hill among the sycamores. Nine solemn-faced Marines stood guard. When the body was lowered into the damp, fresh-dug grave, they fired three volleys into the leaden sky. Lots of people wept...
...country ever won a war that it entered leaden-hearted and unconvinced-and though Americans are not exactly leaden-hearted, they have not yet accepted the war as their job, they have not yet been asked to do what is necessary...
...scene was Moscow's regal Red Hall. The occasion: a full meeting of the Praesidium of the Communist International. Purpose: to whip the recalcitrant U. S. delegation (Gitlow, chairman) into line behind Boss Stalin. In charge was Stalin himself. It was 4:00 a. m. Leaden-eyed, grey-faced with weariness and capitulation, the world's top Communists had heard Stalin denounce the U. S. comrades as Right Wingers, "rotten" diplomats, Hooverites, Babbitts, bourgeois opportunists...