Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Papandreou State" (the four square miles in the heart of Athens controlled by the Government, with British help), civilians were allowed out only for two hours a day to fetch food and water. Snipers' bullets and bursting shells made it hazardous to venture outdoors. U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh and his staff evacuated the perilously placed Embassy in Queen Sophia Boulevard, moved into the American School of Classical Studies on the much safer slopes of Lycabettus. Food was scarce, even in ELAS areas where merchants' stocks were commandeered and distributed...
...near Metz lay a wounded rifleman, clutching his neck and writhing in agony. His windpipe had been fractured by a mortar shell fragment; he was suffocating. Medical Corpsman Duane N. Kinman, 19, crawled to his aid through heavy machine-gun and mortar fire; 2nd Lieut. Edwin M. Eberling of Lincoln, Neb. joined...
...scene was London's solemnly hideous Albert Hall. For the observance of U.S. Thanksgiving Day, its dark Victorian interior was blanketed with American flags, and the flags of all 48 states. A portrait of Lincoln hung from the proscenium; a spotlight played on an American eagle...
Messrs. Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster, who are among the younger and more aggressive publishers, but not too young to have moneybags under their eyes, will continue to run S. & S. Young President Robert Fair de Graff,* 49, who owned 51% of Pocket Books, will continue to manage the company. Tycoon Field denied that he plans to use his millions to flood the U.S. with $1 books. He merely intends to provide "better and better books for more and more people...
...chief U.S. expert on migratory birds, Frederick C. Lincoln of the Fish and Wildlife Service, doubts such stories; he admits that birds are sometimes forced down by snowstorms, but thinks confusion and fright have as much to do with it as anything. Nonetheless, airmen's reports have greatly extended ornithology. Airmen, for example, have found old notions about the speed of birds much exaggerated: the top speed of ducks seems to be about 55 m.p.h.; of the fastest known birds, swifts and duck hawks, not more than 150 to 200 m.p.h...