Word: phoenixed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phoenix, Ariz...
...newspaper lights the way of freedom," was the slogan of National Newspaper Week, celebrated in 5,000 U.S. towns and cities. Most telling of many thousand expressions of the idea: the Phoenix Arizona Republic (circ.: 35,823) appeared with its first and second pages blank except for a small box containing the words: ". . . This is all the news you would be able to read if the daily newspaper were not uncensored, unfettered, in free America...
...also danced under the gas lights of questionable houses in Second Empire Paris, until Bismarck, having discovered the riddle of Napoleon III (he was "the sphinx without a secret"), destroyed France at Sedan and created the Second Reich at Versailles. Then "from these flames there stepped a slightly discredited phoenix, the portentous phenomenon of modern Europe...
...Tatibana put up the money to pay for Al Blake's snooping. Altogether, Al got several thousand dollars from the Japanese, turned it all over to U.S. officials. He made two trips to Hawaii. The Navy handed him some obsolete data, reports of firing practice on the U.S.S. Phoenix last February, several ancient code books. These Al passed on to his employers...
...Arizona desert's edge, in a broad valley twelve miles northwest of Phoenix, there were high jinks one day last week. Sprung up from the cactus in less than five months under the watering of Hollywood money. Southwest Airways' new Thunderbird Field-acting as one of 48 kindergartens for Army Airmen-was graduating its first class. Hollywood starlets trailed inspecting officers down ranks of 102 grey-clad cadets, who had a hard time keeping eyes front...