Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Again on May 10, 1940, when the Germans burst into the Low Countries (people strewed flowers before the British troops advancing into Belgium; three weeks later came Dunkirk; six weeks later, the fall of France; four months later, the blitz of London...
...since the Allied occupation had the British been so popular with Italians. The Cabinet of aging Premier Ivanoe Bonomi issued a declaration of "deep satisfaction" that the New Zealanders were in Trieste, added a "special salute to the incontestably Italian city." From Marshal Tito's headquarters came a low answering growl: "Trieste and Gorizia . . . were, after bloody struggles, liberated by Yugoslav Army forces. . . . Certain Allied forces have, without our permission, entered [these] towns, which might have undesirable consequences unless the matter is promptly settled by mutual agreement." Cried the Yugoslav Communist paper, Naprijed, "Istria and Trieste are ours...
...coarseness of speech, the slang and profanity, the rude, selfish manners, loud raucous laughter, the low standards of taste . . . the passion of our vile movies, our viler music, the craze for maniacal gyrations, euphemistically called the modern dance . . . are characteristic of a growing number of our youth today...
...clean, but they are rarely pleasant places. Typical is the tuberculosis hospital at Rutland Heights, Mass., housed in a red-brick and stucco group of buildings at a lonely crossroads some 13 miles north of Worcester.* The morale of the 446 patients, 16 doctors and two dentists is decidedly low...
...clerk in McGuffog's drapery shop at Stamford, England. There, lost in thought amid the bolts of cotton, he "began to see sectarianism as the root of evil. He noticed the conjugal bliss of his employers, that although Mrs. McGuffog went to High Church and Mr. McGuffog to Low Church, they drank water from the same well and the water was not poisoned...