Word: namelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plus & Minus. In Danville, Va., when the local radio, on a tip from a nameless schoolboy, broadcast the news that classes were called off, School Superintendent G. L. Johnson countered with a more reliable radio bulletin: Easter holidays would be shortened...
...alcoholic's hangover, says Dr. Lolli, differs fundamentally from that of a casual drinker: the alcoholic, after a drinking bout, is beset with uncontrollable tremors, nameless fears, insomnia, an enlarged liver, all sorts of neurotic digestive disorders. He badly needs food, because a prolonged diet of alcohol produces vitamin and mineral deficiencies...
...blessed with Santa Rosa, has had Our Lord of Miracles since October 1746, when an earthquake destroyed Lima. Only one wall, the wall of a little church in the city's poorest quarter, was left standing, and on it was a painting of the Christ, made by a nameless mulatto. Word of the miraculous preservation swept the ruins, and masses of people crowding around the wall started the first procession. As the procession advanced-so legend says-the earth stopped quaking...
Inhaling deeply after the last pink ballot had been totted up, Miss Irene Tinker, Radcliffe '49, sighed deeply yesterday afternoon and then announced that her foetal magazine was still nameless. The reason, she said, was that Tuesday's balloting was much too close to be decisive...
Harry Truman's vacation on the Presidential yacht Williamsburg had been going badly. In Narragansett Bay he had encountered wind, cold and rain. Then he had found himself struggling against the nameless indignities of seasickness. As the yacht rolled southeast on her hunt for the sun he had bribed his queasy stomach with seasick pills. But now, in the harbor of Hamilton, Bermuda, the deck was solid, the water blue, and there were white coral, pastel walls and green foliage ashore...