Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only one ship from the U.S. had docked in Honolulu in six weeks. Foodstuffs were dangerously, low (90% are imported); little businesses were closing down, bigger businesses were laying off employes. The loss of $5,000,000 in wages by about 28,000 sugar workers was a crippling blow...
...believed in thrift, personal integrity, personal independence and the necessity of toil; he abhorred with equal fervor, tobacco, alcohol and ostentation. His favorite dishes were tripe and pig's feet. Although he was an officer of 43 companies and corporations, he shared a small, low-ceilinged office in Boston's museum-like State Street Trust Co. with his secretary (who comes from Illinois). He contemplated buying a new hat as reluctantly as he would have considered selling the house he had built in Concord...
...Francisco Franco's rebel armies were still far away-but at 4:30 p.m. German Junkers and Heinkels started coming over in waves, every 20 minutes. They dropped 1,000-pounders (monsters at that time) and great showers of incendiaries, and since there was no antiaircraft they flew low and machine-gunned fleeing victims...
...born on a 970,000-acre Texas ranch, nobody had ever heard much about his father-but Stymie's greatgrandfather on both sides of the family was Man o' War. When he ran three years ago in a $1,500 claiming race, Stymie sank about as low as bigtime race horses can sink. Last week, by galloping home in the Gallant Fox Handicap at Jamaica, Long Island, Stymie became the second horse in history to earn more than a half-million dollars...
...occasion so auspicious perforce the dusty bones of the Bard of Avon must needs be rattled to sing the praises of the Crimson Clan. So with pro-foundest apologies and a low waist bow, let the loud Alarums sound...