Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the Germans got to Paris, Nicole, a fragile blonde of 15 who played Bach for relaxation ("So big. So high. Like the sky") was already well-known on Paris concert stages. The Germans never knew that many nights, after her practicing, Nicole mounted her bicycle to run messages for the underground (she is one of only twelve civilians to receive the Commandos d'Afrique medal). Once she was asked to give a concert with the Berlin Philharmonic. To avoid playing for the Germans, she wrapped the fingers of her right hand in a bandage, pretending that...
...Vive. At week's end, Somoza was still on the alert. Night & day his airplanes patrolled the sky over Managua, and the tough Guardia had been withdrawn to positions on the hill. Whispered Managuans: "They're coming, they're coming soon." Who? Why, old General Emiliano Chamorro, of course', who at 76 was about to embark on his 17th revolution...
More impressive even than its sky-high size is Lyons' style. Lyons provides everything from buns to banquets (for thousands), with an atmosphere of elegance, and at low prices. The term "nippy", with which Lyons tagged its waitresses after a sprucing-up campaign in 1925, has become a British household word for an efficient, pleasant servant...
...most farseeing eye opened for the first time this week-and saw nothing new. The great 200-in. telescope at Mt. Palomar, weighing 500 tons, swung as smooth as silk on its massive bearings. The astronomers, deliberately avoiding objects of great interest, pointed it at arbitrary spots in the sky, just trying it out. The telescope, they explained, needed a good bit of delicate adjustment before it was ready to take worthwhile pictures...
...though little seems to. Margareta's man throws her over for her sister Mellie. Chris's girl passes him up for his nephew Jules. People drink; people squabble; babies are born; mothers die in childbirth. But for all that (says the author at the end) the sky doesn't fall in; actually, the family doesn't even fall...