Word: pea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pea-shooters and small arms used by its critics to snipe at the War Administration were put aside this past Lincoln's Birthday weekend. This opposition, grasping the opportunity presented by the all-quietness of the military fronts and the American people's susceptibility to pseudo-patriotic harangue on a national holiday, let fly with its heavy artillery, and the ammunition was spotted with verbal dum-dum bullets...
...brief, there is hardly a front where the United Nations are fighting -from the water-logged trenches along the Yangtze to the frozen steppes above Rostov, from pea-soup air above the North Sea to the deserts of Africa and the steaming jungles of New Guinea and Guadalcanal-but what at least one of TIME'S writers in New York can tell you first hand just what it feels like to be there with our fighting men, and fill in the cables from TIME'S regular correspondents from their own personal knowledge of the battlefronts of this...
Beside the bridge, Signalman 1st Class Ralph Moore, pea jacket buttoned tight, watch cap pulled down over his ears, fiddled with a blinker signal. Beating his spray-flecked gloves together for warmth, Moore reported a destroyer's signal to take up position in the escort...
Swedish Snaps. The polar bears in Stockholm's Scansen have not had their full rations of raw meat for three years. Neither have the Swedes had their sill & snaps (herring & aquavit) as often as before. They have managed to maintain their national Thursday evening meal of pea soup and pancakes-and they have managed to stay...
...gallerygoers the art of Marc Chagall has always been a good deal of a riddle. The puzzle began when Painter Chagall rushed from St. Petersburg to Paris with a canvas showing a decapitated milkmaid floating in an emetic sky while a pink cow was suckled by a pair of pea-green apes on a Russian rooftop. Paris was baffled. Even the Left Bank was slow to understand that Painter Chagall's graphic defiance of the laws of physics and biology was the work of a deeply religious, idealistic young Jew who was merely recreating from his imagination the folk...