Word: pegs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canadians have their own gripes: the wood-fuel situation is a mess; some believe beer rationing is a temperance plot by the somewhat arid Mackenzie King Government; the much-heralded "cost of living bonus" to peg wages to prices hasn't satisfied labor; the Canadian farm bloc-as in the U.S.-is on the loose to boost farm prices...
...Mexicans at heart. They themselves were Americans - resented and looked down on by other Americans. Jobless, misunderstood in their own homes and unwelcome outside them, they had fallen into the companionship of misery. They dressed alike, in the most exaggerated and outlandish costume they could afford: knee-length coats, peg-top trousers, yard-long watch chains, "ducktail" haircuts...
...Language. If the license and self-righteousness of great states is to be taken down a peg in the interests of world order, one counterbalance to nationalism may be a supranational language, a simple second tongue that all peoples can learn, in which all can communicate as traders, as guests, as students, as human beings. Recently Basic English has impressed some linguists with its aptness for this role. The European Governments in Exile have discussed English as a second language to be taught in all Continental schools; the Chinese Government has not revoked its decision to make English the second...
Salathiel grew into a huge young man, respected for his strength by the young Indian males, worrisome to the girls be cause of his white skin. Though he learned eagerly the lore of the Shawnees, Salathiel felt himself a square peg in a round hole. Fortunately Big Turtle, tiring of incessant bickering with white enemies, decided to turn over his white captives to the commander of the British stockade, Fort Pitt. With the captives went Salathiel...
...however, Hinsley got the red hat. "I have been called a clothes peg," he said, "but I have had to submit to it because this is settled by authority, and not by my choice or liking." When he returned from the Vatican in his red Cardinal's robes, Londoners gave him an ovation, strewed flowers in his path...