Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians say that "Kars is a British dagger pointed at Russia's heart-Baku." Kars dominates the valleys leading to Batum, Russia's rail and pipeline terminal on the Black Sea, and the Transcaucasian roads to Russia's biggest oilfields. But Kars can also be a Russian dagger pointed through Turkey at the British Empire's oil arteries. It flanks the Iranian province of Azerbaijan about which Russia is much concerned...
...there have been no casualties in the Government Administration class, but any day now someone is likely to be trapped and trampled in the aisle as Mr. Welcker gets off to a running start. Everyone is still anxiously waiting for him to do a hand spring over the rail. Neal Gow denies that his well known track pictures have anything to do with Mr. Welcker's entrances...
...gallery was crowded. In the front row, leaning over the rail, was Britain's cadaverous Ambassador, Lord Halifax, one hand cupped to his good ear. Over & over again, Texan Tom Connally, who had snorted interventionist fire in the Senate before the war, now breathed peace. Said he: "Peace can be preserved. . . . We leagued our armed might for war. Now let us league our moral and material might for peace...
...that morning as we lay off the beach at Tarakan leaning on the rail, an enlisted man beside him, a letter in his hands. He was reading. Then he folded the letter deliberately, put his arm around the sailor's shoulders, and handed him the letter. A moment later he appeared beside me on the bridge. He lighted a cigaret...
...rations and the time he rode a German motorcycle to get some ammunition. Mrs. Small turned the eggs over. "It don't seem hardly possible that you got over there and got back," she said. Pfc. Small sat on a stool and put his feet on the stove rail. "There's nothing to it," he explained. "They fire some shots at you and you lie down and fire some shots back...