Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Of course I don't own a pair of stockings to my name, my husband has sometimes had only one pair of threadbare trousers, but we have always had meat every day, plenty of eggs, milk, and real butter to eat, and TIME to read.
Zatrzymac. In Stamford, England, Jan Rogowski, accused of dangerous driving, explained to the court: "I saw the 'Halt' sign, but by the time I had translated the word into my own language [zatrzymac, Polish for halt], I was in the middle of the crossroad and had a collision...
During my recent tour of duty as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Department I spent about 15 months in Wiesbaden, where Miss Rosenberger was my secretary. Orphaned by the war, she fled Breslau before the Russians and made her way on bicycle and afoot to Wiesbaden where, in...
But I was more surprised when I discovered that my dogeared copies of TIME held top priority with her. The ordinary luxuries like food, cigarettes, and candy had been around before, but your type of comprehensive news reporting was something she had never seen. It amazed and delighted her and...
"We had no trouble recognizing each other" chertled one sign precariously carried by two 1939 men who looked as if they wouldn't know their own fathers if they happened to walk into them. Other groups, apparently less confident of their memories, covered themselves with mustaches, hats, cloaks and grease...