Word: spill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party whose 4,600,000 members were bound to absolute obedience by an iron-clad discipline. It was also the face of the absolute ruler of some 180,000,000 people of 170 nationalities, living in one-sixth of the earth's surface, in a socialist empire spilling across Europe and Asia from Poland to the Pacific Ocean, and threatening to spill farther...
When the Japanese armies surged across the Burma border and threatened to spill into India, Miss Graham-Bower declared war on Japan. She placed herself at the head of the mobilized Nagas. By her orders guards were posted on main and secondary trails, a watch-and-warn system was established. Over these trails thousands of evacuees, deserters, escaped prisoners and bailed-out airmen fled from Burma to India. Miss Graham-Bower also directed Naga ambushes of Japanese search parties...
Packers and Giants. Although they were more concerned about the forthcoming home-and-home, do-or-die series with Washington, the New York Giants took time out last week to spill the high-riding Packers, 24-to-0. From mediocre material, stout (270 Ib.) Steve Owen, the Giants coach, has produced a first-rate defensive club-which leads the league in pass interceptions with 26. For the Green Bay game, he gave Halfback-Rookie Howie Livingston the unenviable job of minding Don Hutson, the alltime greatest pass receiver. The rookie did a job on Hutson, intercepted two passes, allowed Hutson...
...down in easy chairs around the table and drank real coffee and cognac in sherry glasses. Sibelius asked for a large glass so his shaking hands wouldn't spill the cognac. The glass never came. He said he had one bottle of whiskey left, but was saving it. He had great difficulty lighting the stump of a Finnish Balkan tobacco cigar...
...hate' [shelling period] was very heavy and deplorably few duds. I counted no shells in 35 minutes. ... It seemed every time we'd try to get some food the shelling would start again. You'd duck in a trench to get a cup of tea, then spill it diving back into your own trench. . . . Our trenches would cave in too unless we could reinforce them with boards...