Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Western Europe. Very limited quantities of emergency food supplies (flour, coffee, chocolate, sugar, salt, etc.) have been shipped into France, Belgium and The Netherlands. But since all three of these nations are "paying" countries in the UNRRA pool, they will receive no regular UNRRA supplies. Some 60 UNRRA teams of 13 workers each are now in Western Europe, helping to repatriate foreign workers. UNRRA does not feed the displaced persons (the U.S. Army does that...
...vast Merkers (Germany) salt-mine cache (TIME, April 16) was further sorted, found to contain French Impressionist Edouard Manet's In the Conservatory. The Manet was photographed riding out of the mine on a donkey-line car, its 19th-Century figures looked at curiously by G.I.s...
...great quantities of salt are required to digest "Enchanted Cottage's" elfin consomme, for it is subtly spiced with acting that is something distinct from the sleep-walking with which most productions are content...
Each morning the Igorot women line up beside the road, standing or squatting like bright salt shakers on a shelf, awaiting their orders for the day. They are modestly clothed, many in American house dresses, though their men frequently wear only loose-tailed shirts and red G-strings...
...American manners," when Santayana watched Queen Victoria's Jubilee procession with him. But when Santayana visited his friend Charles Augustus Strong (a Rockefeller son-in-law) at Rockefeller's house in Lakewood, N.J., the tycoon had aged, lost his hair, eyebrows and eyelashes, and wore a pepper & salt wig decidedly too small for him. Rockefeller asked him the population of Spain. When Santayana replied 19 million, the old man said thoughtfully, "I must tell them at the office that they don't sell enough oil in Spain." When Strong bought a cord of wood, Rockefeller studied...