Word: slings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Workers on the 17-mile crisscross tracks exasperatingly dubbed SS&VV RR (Sling Something and Vinegar Valley Railroad), which serve a dump storing $4 billion worth of U.S. ordnance, were busier than they had ever been. At another similarly large British dump there was a similar bustle. The U.S. Army borrowed the British design for bridges, the British borrowed the U.S. K-ration but substituted condensed tea for coffee...
...Vinegar Valley. Serving this single great depot, carting inflowing supplies to their proper storage, is the SS & VV ("Sling Something & Vinegar Valley") Railway, 17 miles of track built by U.S. soldiers...
Next day Ickes announced that Briggs had vanished. Ickes, who had recently broken his collarbone, appeared before the grand jury, tieless, open-collared, his right arm in a sling. He talked for almost an hour. He had just come from a 50-minute talk with the President. The Department of Justice announced tersely that Briggs was still available to them...
...paid much attention to his aches and pains on that joyous ride home from Washington Sunday night, except maybe Frank Liebel, an end, whose nose was in a sling. New York Heraid-Tribune...
...comparatively undamaged wing of the Foreign Office von Ribbentrop and his press chief, Dr. Paul Schmidt, held their conferences as usual. The Foreign Minister was grimy-faced; Schmidt had his arm in a sling. Both wore steel helmets pushed down over their heads. Glass crunched underfoot and the wind blew cold through the broken windows...