Word: opener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President, already singed by the reaction to his selection of Politico Tom Clark, was reported not too anxious to lay himself open to the charge of another political appointment so soon. If his anxiety outweighed his friendship for loyal Democrat McGrath, ex-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the most likely possibilities for Rutledge's seat seemed to be Wyoming's Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Justice Harold M. Stephens of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Connecticut Senator Brien McMahon, or former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson...
...Excuse Me, Sir." The doors burst open and a 46-year-old insurance agent named James Hutton hurried out. Unruh spoke for the first time. "Excuse me, sir," he said quietly, and tried to brush past. The insurance man stood motionless. Without another word, Unruh shot him, first in the head, then in the body. He walked into the store and mounted the stairs to Cohen's apartment, where the druggist's family was frantically hunting hiding places...
Cohen's wife ran into a closet. Unruh fired twice through the door, then pulled it open and shot her through the head. He cornered the druggist's 63-year-old mother in another room, and killed her. He trapped Cohen outside on a roof and shot him; the druggist fell to the pavement and the killer aimed, fired, hit him again...
...week after playing for seven years in Hollywood. A freak success which was seldom the same show for two weeks running (TIME, Feb. 12, 1945), Blackouts grossed $5,000,000 from a 10,500. It reached Broadway in a slack season when no other new show was scheduled to open for weeks to come...
...first prize in oils to a poster-slick abstraction of a stage set that might have come out of a studio in midtown Manhattan. Iowa's prizewinner (in the '30s Grant Wood once won three firsts in a row) was a somber doorway that could have opened into a house on almost any Main Street in the land. California's winners, hung in a monster open-air cabana over beds of dazzling yellow marigolds, were low-keyed oil portraits with little sunshine in them. California cautiously separated the conservative sheep from the modern goats, awarded two sets...