Word: potful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother had fixed pot roast and brown gravy, hot rolls and pie. His father talked, all the time eying Horn curiously, until Horn finally opened his bulging barracks bag and hauled out his souvenirs-Luger pistols, German helmets, Nazi medals. The old man was an expert glazier. The stuff fascinated him. Horn was dead tired, but he sat and talked to his father until early morning...
...three Axis leaders scurry in terror before a thick hail of junked scrap-metal -wrenches, chainlinks, pots & pans, hammerheads, nuts & bolts, ashcans, an ancient boiler, a potbellied stove, a chamber pot...
...Winn's well-oiled tub-thumping machinery could make the 71st Kentucky Derby much more than just another horse race. Hoop Jr. splashed his way to a six-length victory in the richest Derby on record (winner's value: $64,850). Second: Calumet Farm's favored Pot o' Luck...
...year 1675 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water, which had stood but few days in a new earthen pot. . . . When these animalcula or living atoms moved, they put forth two little horns, continually moving. . . . These little creatures, if they chanced to light on the least filament or string, or other particles, were entangled therein, extending their body in a long round and endeavoring to disentangle their tail. . . . I have seen several thousands of these poor little creatures, within the space of a grain of gross sand, lie fast clustered together in a few filaments...
Common Ground is about some U.S.O. entertainers captured by the enemy just before the liberation of Naples. The melting-pot troupe (Jewish comedian, Italian-born vaudevillian, Hollywood actor of German descent, etc.) faces a cold-blooded Nazi colonel who orders the Jew to a concentration camp, gives the others the choice between trouping as Axis propagandists or being shot. Each vacillates, rationalizes, wrestles with his conscience; all, in the end, choose to die. Their decision is also a retort: by their love of democracy and hatred of oppression, Americans of diverse backgrounds do share a common ground...