Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...workmen, stiffened red hands that had to be warmed up before the glowing maws of smoking salamanders. The rain did not slow up the work, any more than the snow had: on & on went the chatter of pneumatic hammers, the shouts of glaziers and concrete workers, the huff-puff of switch engines. Work had to go on. For that building, 500 feet wide, more than a quarter-mile (1,380 feet) long, was to be the first quantity-production source of a most important weapon: medium tanks...
...Japan they use wooden pillows. A pillow fight there means something. Similarly in America, we have the National Association of Manufacturers, and consequently, a controversy over the contents of social-science texts is no cream-puff affair. Somebody raised the cry that many school books are "subversive" and "un-American"--and so the aforementioned industrial patriots felt called upon to conduct an investigation of their own. With characteristic impartiality, they placed an assistant professor of banking in charge of the inquiry...
...fellow being with a bellow feeling" to enjoy windy punning and complex ritual. Payment of one peso initiation fee makes the joiner a Whiff (all non-joiners are Snuffs, ritualistically defined as "infinitely worse than a cross-eyed toad with athlete's foot"). A Whiff becomes a Puff when he pays his first month's levy. A Puff becomes a Gust when, after his entry, 1,000 planes have been shot down and he has paid in ten pesos. When 5,000 planes are down and 50 pesos paid in, a Gust becomes a Hurricane. When...
...rebellious dancers, pining for more significant footwork, have balked at ballet's limitations. First of the rebels was the late great U. S. Dancer Isadora Duncan, who took to stage dancing like a Baptist to water, discarded ballet's fouettes and entrechats for natural movements, its powder-puff skirts for Greek robes...
Last week, before the American News paper Publishers Association at Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria, Bill Knudsen blew off a cloud of steam over the strained relations of big business and Government in the U. S., let go the biggest puff on the subject of big pay for industrialists. Excerpt...