Word: nook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From every nook in Germany they came. There were 119 generals and 40-odd colonels-much of what is left of the stiff-necked high command of Hitler's Wehrmacht. They met early this month in a smoke-filled beer hall in the U.S. zone city of Stuttgart; their host was a self-styled "aristocrat and man of the world": Ernst von Reichenau, brother of the Nazis' famed Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau...
Strategy. Ike will take no chances and campaign as hard as possible. He promised to appear "in every nook and cranny . . ." Ike will campaign mostly by train, but there will also be some plane trips. He will make a maximum number of TV appearances...
...long as the travel boom lasts, shippers are not too worried; they think they will get their profitable share-and they think they have some things that no plane can match. As one European-bound tripper put it: "Is there anything better than sitting in a cozy nook on the stern of a ship, smelling the salt air and watching the white wake, and knowing that you have nothing to do but enjoy yourself...
...just about ready to leave when one of them found that a guest-room bed, while neatly made, was warm between the sheets. The room's carpet was loose in one corner. The cops pulled it up, yanked away some loose planking. There, in a two-foot-deep nook, lay a burly man dressed only in his underwear. "The jig's up," said he calmly. "I knew you were bound to find me some...
...months. The raid was christened "Operation Cleaver," but ebullient correspondents were cautioned not to call it an "offensive." Two of the columns got into savage fighting, and one was reported "engaged on all sides" (i.e., surrounded). The Reds, said a U.N. officer, seemed to have antitank guns "in every nook and corner of the valley." The raiders succeeded in wrecking "several" of the enemy's T-34 tanks...