Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three such "Model T" air bursts, said the AEC, would tear the guts out of Washington. A perfect three-bomb pattern would pinpoint the Capitol, the downtown-White House district and the brass-heavy Pentagon across the Potomac...
...Vernon E. Prichard, 57, chief of the U.S. Army's Public Information Division, wartime commander of the ist Armored Division in Italy; of a concussion suffered in a yacht explosion in which onetime diplomat Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. and his wife narrowly escaped death; on the Potomac River, Washington...
...thing, Kent was dead-he had lost his job, and fortnight ago had rented a canoe, paddled up the Potomac and cut his own throat with a kitchen knife. For another thing, the FBI document stated that he had gotten the Bulgarian's address from Mrs. Emilie Condon, wife of Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the federal Bureau of Standards...
...conference in 1947 and the U.S. President was returning hospitality in the homely, natural way he likes best. Accompanied only by two Secret Service men and an interpreter, Guide Truman led his guest through the White House grounds. Along the curving iron back fence he pointed out where the Potomac once flowed before it shifted course, and told a story, probably apocryphal, about another early-rising American President...
Dogwood bloomed white and pink in Rock Creek Park and fishermen were out along the Potomac. Vacationing tourists were everywhere-swarming through the Capitol's dark corridors, leveling their cameras at the White House and the Washington Monument. In this fine spring atmosphere members of the House approved what was probably a peacetime record for one week's check-signing ($24 billion), then headed for home and a ten-day vacation. The Senate, far behind in its work, labored...