Word: reference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi's "prizewinning dream" (TIME, March 6) demonstrates better than anything we can write or say the type of mentality which has been attracted to Quisling in Occupied Norway. . . . The rubbery highflying fantasy of the tale ... is reminiscent of another "classic" in the history of Norwegian letters. I refer to the "novel" that came from the pen of Charles Hoff, onetime world champion pole vaulter, shortly after he returned to Norway after his escapades in America. Hoff's story ended with an earthquake destroying Manhattan, and with the poor but honest hero marrying the multimillionaire's daughter...
Correspondents were allowed to refer vaguely to "comparatively new guns" which sent their shells screeching through the sky like broom-riding witches. But no details of the weapons could be given. Only last week did British authorities take them off the secret list, disclosing that the guns actually were rocket projectors. Some of them had been used as far back as 1941, had brought down an enemy bomber with their second salvo...
Whether the Germans intended the little blitz as a strategic move, propaganda to bolster the Reich home front, or as a demonstration that there are still anti-invasion bombers, London was again becoming blitz-minded. Dinner guests took along their helmets, began to refer to the 1940-41 bombings as "the last...
...time the kids grew up and you have to buy instead of a crib, you had to buy other beds and furniture which I was only able to do which recently I got a letter from Sears that said, 'Kindly refer to this matter immediately or your salary will be garnisheed.' Well I had to get $14 by hook or crook to pay off that debt. Now I want to give you some of the Mayor's own figures, that out of 168,000 city employes in New York, 90,000 are in hock up to their...
...Ipswich's 17th-Century Clergyman Nathaniel Ward, who first used the word American to refer to the colonists rather than to Indians...