Word: rung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard, in losing its third game in four league starts, dropped from a tie for fourth place to the next to the bottom rung on the Eastern Intercollegiate League ladder, while the victors scrambled from last place to a tie for third...
...sturdily sesquipedalian Prime Minister of England wow the House of Commons with his oak-hearted phrases, with a tactful tribute (in French) to the loyal French-Canadians; they had listened as he recalled the 1940 prophecy of French generals, that "in three weeks England will have her neck rung like a chicken," had roared with delight as he growled: "Some chicken! . . . Some neck!" Now the newsmen glumly dined, glumly conversed. This was the heel of the last day of the last year of a decade of defeat...
This startling fact was underscored last week when OPM materials chief William Batt told air-conditioning makers they could get top-rung priorities on all blast-furnace installations. In fact, steel companies will be urged to air-condition, can have RFC money to pay for the jobs. Reason: air-conditioned furnaces produce more iron (TIME, April...
Surveying his assignment, Isoroku Yamamoto saw that his greatest permanent necessity would be to keep British power and U.S. power from effecting a junction. If, with the help of the Army, he could break off the rungs by which the U.S. Navy has to climb over the shoulder of the Pacific to Singapore, his job would be much easier. Therefore the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Wake, Midway and Guam were important; but the penultimate rung, the Philippine Islands, was most vital to his cause...
...Belmont score came late in the final period, and it marked the third successive fracas in which the opposition averted a shutout with a last minute goal. The Yardlings have rung up 18 scores in their three contests...