Word: long
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holdridge was shipped overseas, her rash went away. When he came back, so did the rash. Soon, on her way to work as a telephone operator in San Francisco, Joyce Holdridge was hiding behind a newspaper on the bus, wearing dark glasses to cover her swollen eyes, dressing in long-sleeved, high-necked blouses. In the evenings and on days off she never left the house, says she, because "I looked so terrible...
Radioactive Dust. The instruments that recorded the Russian explosion were many and varied. Atom Bombs that explode in the air form mushroom clouds of intensely radioactive dust that billow high in the atmosphere. The dust particles, so small that they fall very slowly, are carried long distances by the wind. The radioactivity of the test explosion at Alamogordo in July 1945 was detected over Maryland, 1,425 miles away...
...Long Cloth. Out of the inexhaustible bundle came a striped cloth 12 ft wide and 87 ft. long. Bird believes that this is the biggest cloth ever woven by pre-machine methods. He estimates that the weavers must have walked 77 miles while laying out the warp threads...
...long run even the farmers might rebel against the increasing controls of support programs. They can catch a glimpse of their future in the proposed new potato support program. The more openhanded the Government becomes, the more strictly it may have to control what farmers grow right down to the bushel...
Spain's stooped and shriveled Juan March has come a long way since the days of his penniless youth when he earned his first pesetas by smuggling tobacco. He did not learn to read or write until his late 40s, but he had a flair for figures. He multiplied his first stake into a fortune (estimated at $100 million to $200 million), gained mastery over scores of Spain's chief industries and banks, and helped finance Franco's rebellion...