Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four-Star Ovation. Washington unrolled its plushiest red carpet for the wan, wiry veteran of the cold war. At the airport Louis Johnson bundled him into a long, black Cadillac and whisked him off to the White House. There, in the sunlight of the presidential rose garden; President Truman pinned a second Oak Leaf Cluster on the riband of General Clay's Distinguished Service Medal and read a praise-packed citation he had written himself. "General Clay," intoned the President, ". . . proved himself not only a soldier in the finest tradition . . . not only an administrator of rare skill...
...Capitol Hill, where the Senate later approved 52-year-old Soldier Clay's retirement as a four-star general (at $6,600 a year), there were more salutes. Clay addressed both Houses of Congress, stood somberly and half-smiling as Representatives and Senators gave him standing ovations (his father, Alexander Stephen Clay was a U.S. Senator from 1897 to 1910). A few minutes later General Clay sat in a Pentagon press conference, firing answers at newsmen as fast as they could write them down. (Would Germany ally herself with Russia? ". . . Only if the Western powers [were] unwilling to accept...
...open-air markets. Shanghai's fishing fleet lay idle at the docks. The price of yellow fish, one of the city's staple foods, jumped six times in one day; then the fish all but vanished from the market. By night the incandescent white light of star shells blossomed periodically in the skies around Shanghai. Tracer shells splashed lines of red along the horizon. One shell hit a Standard Vacuum Oil Co. tank near the Whangpoo and 2,000 tons of gasoline went up with a whoosh, burned for 24 hours...
Nevertheless, the faculty decision was applauded by the Star-Journal. "Communism and its propagandists have no place in such an institution," said the editorial, concluding that "President Paul Klapper has made if clear that he will continue to stand guard against possible invasion of the campus by the reds...
...statement, Lenz was harshly attacked. A news story in the Long Island Star-Journal, bearing the headline, "DEAN DEFENDS CAMPUS REDS," led off with: "Harold Lenz of Flushing, dean of students at Queens College, came to the aid of campus Communists and their stooges at a day-long hearing before the Board of Education yesterday...