Word: matches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly painted crimson-&-gold state coach drawn by the famed Windsor greys, Their Majesties-the King in naval uniform, the Queen in a turquoise blue suit with feathered hat to match-smiled and bowed toward the tumult. Ahead of the postilions, a State Guard of Household Cavalry clop-clopped proudly. Escorted by motorcycle outriders, the Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, Lieut. Colonel Sir Terence Nugent, rode clasping a suitcase in which rested the Imperial Crown. Not since World War II began had the jewel-studded emblem left its sanctuary to be displayed...
Grimm's Cubs have pitching to match their hitting. Claude Passeau (won 14, lost 4) and Hank Wyse (18-8) are the two league-leading hurlers. Behind them is ex-Yankee Hank Borowy, whom the pennant-hungry Cub's management wangled out of the American League (TIME, Aug. 6) for a round $100,000 worth of players and/or cash...
...atoms of the uranium isotope, U-235, giving a mighty gush of energy. Besides energy, their "fission" produced more flying neutrons. If enough of these in turn split uranium atoms, the reaction would maintain itself, gain momentum. It would flash through all the uranium, like the flame of a match through excelsior...
...develop, did not happen naturally, chiefly because only one part in 140 of ordinary uranium is U-235. Most of the rest is another isotope, U-238-which, instead of splitting like U-235, absorbs the newborn neutrons with the result that the atomic flame goes out like a match in wet excelsior...
Even before the bombings, the strain on her productive system, no match for the great western powers, must have been terrific. The strain on her island people must have been more so. All nations at war secretly long for peace, and in Japan, the markers, commemorating the dead in the Shinto shrines had increased ominously in death's rich wartime harvest...