Word: stack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office in the Department of the Interior, stoop-shouldered, intense little John Collier shuffled through a neat stack of papers, stopped occasionally to stare at a corncob pipe in an empty water glass on his desk. In his baggy old long-sleeved green sweater, he looked like a country storekeeper closing out the week's accounts. Actually, he was closing out twelve years with the Government...
...since seven Egyptian students had killed British General Sir Lee Stack in Cairo 20 years ago had Egypt been shaken by a crime like the murder of Lord Moyne, British Resident Minister in the Middle East. This time the killers were two young Palestinian Jews, political assassins of the Implacable Stern Gang (TIME, Nov. 13). The two men kept their eyes fixed on the five black-robed, green-sashed judges...
...light observation ship, ran low on gas and set down at a small island where the only fuel on hand was cooking kerosene. Glumly the pilot tanked up, ran his snorting, protesting engine for 30 minutes to warm up, then staggered off into the air, his exhaust stack belching flame and smoke. The home base heard him coming from afar, "like a model-T Ford climbing a hill in reverse." But he wobbled to a safe landing...
...library, not familiar to most Harvard students, is located on Western Avenue, behind the Business School and the athletic fields. Of simple design, the utilitarian structure, 88 by 64 feet, surrounds a stack of six levels. In front of the stack is a reading room which can accommodate 20 persons...
...Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, 32, son of the 13th Duke of Hamilton, Scotland's No. 1 peer. A boxer who captained Oxford, he married Prunella Stack (Britain's "Perfect Girl"), with whom he toured Britain preaching physical fitness. Their son, born in July 1940, was a "perfect boy." Last August, Squadron Leader Douglas-Hamilton was shot down, killed...