Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Progress. In Manhattan, a department store advertised "Corsets to Match your Suntan." In Washington, a patent was awarded for a bathing cap that looks like...
...through trouble, the Second had violated another Pattonism. Meeting abler anti-tank tactics from the 27th and 30th than it had expected, it had lost many tanks. D.S.C.Man Patton had warned them of the danger of 75s along the roadside. Said he (amended version): "Never engage in a scenting match with a skunk." The Second, relying on its own strength, had failed to use its infantry, and the failure had been expensive. It had also failed to coordinate its work with its allied Fifth Division, and been cited by the umpires for the failure...
...past fortnight, U.S. listeners coast-to-coast have been diverted by a killer-diller called Latitude Zero (8 p.m. E.D.S.T.), which makes its way out of NBC's Hollywood studios accompanied by the world's most bizarre barrage of sound effects. The script is written to match...
This is the story no less of Isabel Burton than of her spectacular husband, translator of the Arabian Nights. But she was at least a match for him. They were as daft, disarming a pair of eccentrics as boredom with Victorian England produced...
...former No. 1 French Publisher Jean Prouvost, all that remains is a one-page shadow of the once-great Paris-soir. His picture weekly, Match, once ranking as the French LIFE with a circulation of 2,500,000, has been taken over by the Germans, published as an "ersatz" called La Semaine. Seized also was his Marie-Claire (French Ladies' Home Journal, with circulation of 1,250,000), and supplanted by a Nazi rag called Pour Elle...