Word: potful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that their source and meaning puzzled the Indians themselves. Clipped and pummeled into pronounceable shape by Spaniards, Frenchmen, Russians, Harvardmen, gold miners, railroad presidents and sentimental poets, they ended up as much Greek as Indian. In fact, they were American-the first ingots from the great U.S. verbal melting pot that put the second "C" in Connecticut (no one knows who did, or why), made Wyoming out of Mecheweami-ing, Oregon out of Ouiscon-sink (though some Irish patriots still insist that O'Reagan is the obvious source), Laughing Waters out of the onomatopoetic Minne-baba...
...spreading to more than a yard in diameter. Individually, these can be extinguished as easily as a magnesium bomb. But a single oil-bomb cluster produces so many fiery pancakes that the problem for fire fighters, like that of a mother whose child has got loose in the jam pot, is where to begin...
Soldiers Must Learn. Base camps, of which there are 135, are dreary barracks behind double fences of barbed wire. Branch camps (308), located near job sites, are winterized tents in which P.W.s keep warm around little pot stoves. Inside these various stockades the prisoners are bitterly waiting...
WHILE THEY WERE BEING BOUND IN A BATTERED PLANT HALF A MILE FROM WHERE THE BATTLE FOR INTRAMUROS STILL RAGED A JAP SNIPER WAS HIDING IN A SCRAP PILE 50 YARDS AWAY. OCCASIONALLY POT-SHOOTING AT PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. GUERRILLAS GUARDING THE PLANT ARE STILL UNABLE TO ROUT HIM OUT. WHEN THE PRINTED PAGES WERE BEING TRUCKED TO THE BINDERY IN A WEAPONS CARRIER, THE JAPS FIRED ON US A FEW MILES OUT OF THE CITY. NO ONE WAS HURT...
...Arte Moderno had lovingly collected 330 examples of native Mexican sculpture, mounted them in a dazzling exhibit. The show was loosely called Mascaras Mexicanas (Mexican Masks) - but along with the religious, ceremonial and dance masks was a colorful assortment of sculptured heads originally designed as decorations for jewelry, pot tery, architecture...