Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bombs Away. For a moment no fighters were attacking. There had been no time to watch France pass below us. As I glanced out now, there was Paris, a pale gold pattern in the clear morning light, the Eiffel Tower, the Champs Elysées, the Seine glinting silver. Flak seemed to be mushrooming up from nowhere. In a moment Le Bourget was in sight. Johnny started fiddling with the release. As Johnny quietly said: "Bombs away," a cluster dropped from the Fortress close beside us. The Forts moved too fast for us to see the bombs hit, but photographs...
...Square, where Manhattan's skidroad-the Bowery-ends. McSorley's has also provided a haven for Manhattan's literary transients-writers, newshawks, painters, poets (grateful Poet e. e. cummings once immortalized mcsorley's: "Inside snug and evil. ... the Bar tinkling luscious jigs dint of ripe silver with warmlyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps. . . ." The venerable saloon still has soup bowls instead of cash registers, gas lights over the bar, a rack of clay and corncob pipes for free smokes on the house. Under portraits of Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley is a brass...
...beaded bag. But he could also say things that made his Senate colleagues prick up their ears. Sample: "If the object [of this bill] is to provide for friends and dependents, let us say so openly." To a Congressman his voice was "as musical as the chimes of silver bells." But Mrs. Jefferson Davis thought he had "rather the air of a witty bon vivant than that of a great Senator...
...poured her first steel eleven days after Pearl Harbor. To meet Navy production schedules (for valve fittings, aircraft-carrier arresting gear, submarine net cable-guides), Mrs. Shofner deliberately overloaded her melting furnaces a full 100%. This was dangerous, but she put her faith in a skilled crew and a silver medal (the Virgin on one side, Christ on the other) sealed in the foundation of the furnaces. Said she: "God's on our side and anything that comes out of these furnaces fights...
...given a spinal shot. He saw the doctor's arm moving, his own leg lifted, the blood vessels tied off. Four times Lawson looked at the silver saw in White's hand. He could hear the teeth cutting through thicker and thinner parts...