Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, statistics-crammed, unreadable. But in the light of Secretary Claude Wickard's maxim: "Food will win the war and write the peace" (TIME, July 21), CRB's communiqué showed that the U.S. had won the first big engagement in the Battle of the Soil...
...Small tug or trawler equipped with anti-aircraft guns. †Named after Captain Franklin Buchanan, founder of Annapolis and first U. S. Naval officer of Commodore Perry's expedition to set foot on Japanese soil...
Actually panic, which is sudden, unreasonable fear, may make people stampede, faint, sweat, shake, soil their breeches, have palpitation of the heart-but it will not kill a healthy person...
...jittery period for collaborators. They were still smarting over the R.A.F. raid on the German-supplying Renault automobile factories in suburban Paris (TIME, March 16). There was no longer any doubt that Britain would attack pro-German operations on French soil, even though the attack might kill Frenchmen. Moreover, there were signs that most Frenchmen supported the British...
...other side of the fence completely. A meandering, rhapsodic flowering of the old-fashioned W. C. Handy type of blues, Blues in the Night promises to take its place beside St. Louis Blues as a classic. Unlike the Handy songs, it did not spring from Mississippi Valley soil, but was machined to order for a Warner Brothers movie by two Tin Pan Alley veterans. Curly-haired Harold Arlen, composer of the unforgettable Stormy Weather, did the music; 32-year-old Johnny Mercer, the words. After hearing the song, the Warners promptly changed the film's title from New Orleans...