Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streetcar clanked slowly along Munich's long, steep Tegernseer Landstrasse. Inside, behind the plywood which replaced the car's bomb-shattered windows, it was dark. The conductor was collecting fares. One woman fumbled in her handbag for a 50-pfennig piece, dropped it on the floor as the car shook...
...jelly) on the balcony. Then a walk down to the piazza to buy the Paris Herald (for black-market quotations). Lunch at the hotel was usually risotto with meat, salad, wine, pastry, fruit, coffee. After a two-hour siesta, a walk to the Marina Piccolo to swim off the steep rocks, then back to the piazza to drink iced vermouth (70 lire, one dime,). Then dinner at the hotel (veal scaloppine, salad, spaghetti, bread, butter, cheese, wine, coffee, pastry). An evening for two at one of the small nightclubs-and a ride home in a carriage-cost...
...show what his gadget can do, President Howard Hughes of Hughes Aircraft loaded a Lockheed Constellation last week with newsmen and headed out over the Pacific near Los Angeles. He flew west until he was opposite the steep mountains beyond Santa Monica, which have reached for many an airplane through California fog. Turning inland, Hughes flew the plane directly toward the highest peak. The bell rang and the light flashed as soon as the radar "cat's whiskers" brushed the rising ground...
...this point there was plenty of time to avoid the mountains by an easy, gentle climb. But to show the wide margin of safety, Hughes flew the great plane into a steep-sided valley with mountains all around. At last he remarked calmly: "Now we'll take evasive action." The ship roared up in a steep, climbing turn to clear the rocks...
Like the charmed rats of Hamelin, Americans scamper to follow the compelling advertisement, convinced that it would be disloyal and remiss not to "remember mother," assured that one remembers best with each, once a year. The business index will rise perceptibly, the sweet smell of roses and caramels will steep the land, but on Monday mother will be back at the washtub or Garden Club, bored, neglected, and tired...