Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Item 1--The event of the season is approaching. October 7 has been chosen as the date for the finest dance ever held by the Supply School. President Harry Magnuson announces that a portable bar with barkeepers to match has been secured to meet all demands in any quantity this time...
...London. It was Sunday noon and in the churches worshipers commemorated another day of history: "The Victory of the Few." On this day, four years before, a few handfuls of R.A.F. fighter pilots had turned back Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe. Londoners cheered. A Salvation Army band tried to match its tootling against the drumming of the engines, gave it up. But the drummer, his eyes on the sky, thumped and rolled a theme for the scene: the da-da-da-daaa of the V-rhythm...
...General Lee is sometimes a little too impressive to be wholly convincing, his performance is altogether too vigorous to be underrated. There are few generals in the Army who can match him for energy. He regularly zips through a 16-hour day on a minutely fixed timetable...
...Washington held forth with an economics major (these we are assured were in the minority) on the complexion of supply and demand but with no weakening on either side. Wartime shortages couldn't be blamed Joe had met his match...
Slight, blond, horn-rimmed Interpreter Pavlov, who translated for Stalin at Teheran, translated sentence by sentence. Once Molotov broke off a sentence to ask for a match. Then he said: "The Soviet Union will from this time be in a state of war with Bulgaria...