Word: linen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German conquest has been clear and consistent. First came a vast physical looting, in which trains were requisitioned to carry to Germany movable property: machinery, raw materials, food stocks, books, scientific instruments, horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, art objects and collections, furniture, park benches, clothing, soap, hardware, garden tools, bed linen, doorknobs. The trains themselves seldom returned...
...harbor, Italy's biggest port after Genoa, was cluttered with sunken ships. The Germans had sown the dockside with mines and booby traps, had destroyed warehouses and dock installations. The Germans had stripped the steel works, machine shops, locomotive factories, glass, wool, linen, silk, even macaroni factories of their machinery and left the buildings charred and gutted...
...apartment house with maid service was ordered to change linen twice weekly, since the Government considered one weekly change not enough...
...doctor's clothes should be good (Boggs sometimes prescribes suits at $150 apiece), and pressed, his linen white, his hoes shined. The office should be bright not too bright, stocked with fresh magazines and flowers. Sometimes all a lagging practice needs is an interior-decorating...
...still can't believe it's true; not having to make up our bunks except on change-of-linen day, only two of us to a room, adequate closet space, the beautiful laundering Mrs. Thomas does for us, and our wonderful Mrs. Rose Chisholm to whom we're all always indebted...