Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Powerful Field. Last week, General Motors let out that it too is thinking about a new car, lighter, cheaper than Chevrolet. It plans to build a plant in Cleveland to produce it, possibly set up a new organization to market it. Nash Motors is also reportedly planning a new model with a wheelbase of only 86 inches (present Ford wheelbase: 114 inches). Willys-Overland also has a new small car up its sleeve. But no one was doing much talking-yet. Cracked one motorman with heavy irony: "We're not as far along as Kaiser and Frazer...
Faye Emerson, cinemactress wife of Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt, chatting cozily with the New Deal-hating New York Daily News, displayed some of the birthday gifts Elliott had given her-a pearl pin encrusted with diamonds and rubies; earrings to match; a gold cigaret lighter. Her hair had been blonde, long and straight, but: "I had it cut and now it's dark and short and curly, and nearly everyone thinks that Elliott's being unfaithful...
Along with Mauldin [TiME, June 18], I have chased the war from Sicily to Germany, and every mile has been the lighter because of him. But you have missed the reason why G.I.s are so fanatically for him. I bitch and the other tired old men around me bitch, but we feel that none of the brass ever hears any of it. And that makes it all seem even more futile than it is. But we know that Mauldin hits home where we can't. Maybe General Patton has only seen two, but every squawk. from him, from Base...
That the resentful Congress party would consent even to meet the Viceroy was a hopeful sign. Its principal conference delegates (ex-President Nehru and current President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad) had only just emerged from three years in jail-Nehru greyer and grimmer, Azad 46 lbs. lighter. Fellow Delegate Mohandas K. Gandhi, who ended his prison term 13 months ago, also gave the meeting his cautious blessing. Said he: "It would be a mistake to jump to a hasty conclusion that the Viceroy's proposals are good fortune for India. It would also be a mistake to dismiss them...
...Philippines the campaign had settled down to a hard, patient mop-up in the dreary mud of the rainy season. On Mindanao U.S. troops worked slowly toward Mount Apo, highest peak in the Islands, where retreating Japs melted back into the brushy, green slopes. North on Luzon opposition was lighter, and Sixth Army forces were able to poke a long, strong finger deep into the Cagayan Valley where some 20,000 of General Tomoi-juki Yamashita's troops were cornered. Explained one grinning, bowing Jap prisoner: "Yamashita no good...