Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that red-smoky light, and in the darkness that fell black as a pall when the fuel was consumed, Hostess Ferguson and the other survivors worked in the mud and the scattered wreckage for two hours before rescuers reached them. The injured and the dead had to be carried through knee-deep muck to flat-bottomed swamp boats, then ferried across the estuary to ambulances. It took all night and all the next day before the grim and bloody work was done...
When Harry Truman nominated his friend and adviser, George Allen, to a directorship of the giant Reconstruction Finance Corp. last January, a suspicious Senate Committee prepared to give roly-poly George the piercing eye. But Washington-wise Jester Allen gagged away their suspicions that he was too light for the job. Later, when he was confirmed, he dropped 13 of his 22 business directorships, to lay the Senators' worst fears. When he set to work, it was with the understanding between him and Harry Truman that he would stay on the job twelve months...
...taken the National Assembly 41 days to approve the Constitution. The final vote was almost unanimous. But even the final sessions were not all sweetness & light. TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin reported the scene...
...Double Quest, using the symbol of a Briton's love for an American girl as the theme for Anglo-U.S. amity. Later, as wartime head of the Ministry of Information's American Division, he suggested the same idea to cinema scripters, saw it come to light as the movie Stairway to Heaven, now showing in the U.S. He is also the author of Roaring Century, a current British bestseller...
Curfew at 10. Like their European counterparts, the U.S. hostels hug secondary roads and avoid large cities, vary from deluxe cabins to converted barns. Hikers and bikers travel light, hop from one overnight spot to the next...