Word: melts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They met the Jap near Kokoda (where there is a usable airdrome) and stopped him. The enemy seemed confused at the kind of opposition he got. He came in force upon one small Allied patrol, saw it melt into the jungle before he could fire a shot. The little infantrymen fanned out and sprayed the underbrush with tommy-gun fire. They shouted: "You come, you come." But the patrol did not come. It pulled out without losing...
...Standard of Living, it is important to note, is the 1942 standard in reverse. Then there was too little money for too many goods; now the specter of inflation stalks the land because there is (or will be, when the present enormous inventories melt away) too much money to buy too few goods. Ironically, the manner in which that money will be distributed magnifies the problem. For the plain fact is that (outside of military casualties) there are only two major kinds of "suffering" in prospect for consumers: 1) The newly well-paid will not be able to use their...
...thought of the ready bed and the tidy bureau drawers waiting in his House room. Visions of sweating Freshmen rummaging through trunks to find that dress shirt that just had to go at the bottom of the first drawer filled his mind, and even the heat could not melt his core of superciliousness when he stalked past the bewildered Freshman about to sign his fifth pressing contract under pressure from three burly salesmen. The last salesman to put his foot in Vag's door had left three toes on the sill; now they let him alone...
Concealment v. Confusion. World War I's camouflage was chiefly front-line camouflage, designed to fool ground observation or relatively slow-moving aerial observers, and so aimed primarily at total concealment wherein an objective such as a battery of 75-mm. artillery would melt so unobtrusively into its surroundings that the enemy would be unable to notice it. In this respect front-line camouflage has scarcely changed at all. But the coming of the bomber plane has started something new in rear areas. To meet that danger the modern camoufleur has to think of the necessity not of complete...
...salt, the esthetic sense of a crackajack travel agent. Of glacial origin, Lake Pend d'Oreille is a favorite summer resort for the Northwest, is one of the largest U.S. fresh-water lakes (35 miles long, six to 15 miles wide). At either end, broad grass-lush prairies melt into smooth bathing beaches; on the east, steep cliffs stand sheer from the water, mount on up into the snowcapped Cabinet Mountains. The lake is fish-chocked: trout, land-locked salmon, whitefish. In summer, scores of pleasure boats, bright with paint, nose over...