Word: matted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seaside villa at Okitsu, the naming of each new Premier -he has advised at least 15 times-revolved around him. About five hours before the resignation of a Premier, Saionji would be notified. His private secretary would arrange a through telephone wire to Tokyo. In his tatami mat room the old Prince would sit apparently just listening to the waves in Kiyomi Bay. He would confer for a time with the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal; then meditate some more. Finally he would pronounce a name, and the man whom he named would be the next Premier of Japan...
Last week a steady stream of war matériel was flowing, much of it by air, from British bases in the lower Middle East to new ones in Greece. Some said many Australian and New Zealand troops were going, too, though Britain denied this, saying her only ground troops in Greece were military police and air-base guards. But besides military help, Greece was going to need food, fuel, money. Over her loomed not only the shadow of Germany on the northeast but cold and hunger at home...
...conference: "Germany today, less than ever, had reason to refrain from pointing out that the Reich is in favor of reasonable Bulgarian and Hungarian revision claims." The result of the Salzburg sales talks will not be made public until Bulgaria and Slovakia have had their turns on the mat...
...Joan Crawford is one of Adrian's favorite models, Susan and God is no mean fashion event. Feminine movie goers and scouts who remembered such nationwide Adrian clicks as the puffed sleeves Crawford wore in Letty Lynton, Garbo's Eugenie hat in Romance and jaunty pillbox in Mat a Hari, ogled Miss Crawford in a quilted bed jacket and chiffon wimple, a severe black frock with white loops sprouting from one shoulder, a striking evening gown suspended from a white cord (see cut), 13 other Adrian changes...
...open, crying "Chin pao! Chin pao!" ("The alarm! The alarm!"). In the downtown areas, where shopkeepers had built wooden stalls over the ruins from last May; up on the hill, where the livid scar of a huge incendiary-bomb fire had been covered with a town of mat sheds; across the Yangtze River, where the U. S. Embassy stands-all through the city, the natives milled, and watched for the planes in terror. Only one in four reached a bomb shelter. That day 99 planes flew over...