Word: steers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House to plead for order. Thereafter, for 57 minutes the Prime Minister droned on, protesting that Trondheim was not comparable to Gallipoli, explaining that the failure in Norway was caused by lack of airdromes and the speed of German troop movements, defending his leadership as an effort to "steer a middle course." Only once did he draw hearty cheers from his supporters, with a warning which later events proved to have been remarkably foresighted...
...steer among the day's warm welcomes was recorded. A New York Harvard man, sitting in his officer near Grand Central Station, heard a brass band blaring forth Harvard airs outside his window. He hurried down to the station to join in what he thought was a welcoming demonstration and found that the band was representing the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Why they were playing Harvard songs was not revealed...
...faithful Wiley worshipers, all good members of the Protective League. When a new sponsor approaches him with a product, Wiley turns it over to 50 of his housewives for testing. They have rejected about half of the products thus offered, have never given him a bum steer. Asked to spiel for a quick-drying floor wax, he tried it on his own floors, reported candidly over the air next day: "This is a good wax, and it's as good as any wax, I suppose. It says on the can it will dry to the touch in four hours...
...referendum for an A.S.U. condemnation of Stalin's Finnish rape comes a crisis in the affairs of the Harvard Student Union. Will it cling to the coattails of discredited fellow members in the Communist-dominated American Student Union? Or will it cut loose from the national body and steer by its own star...
...deity of the people of King Kamehameha. When her anger stirred, Kamehameha's subjects quaked. She scooped up blood-red lava from the great holes of Mauna Loa, Kilauea, Hualalai, and poured it steaming across the island of Hawaii. To her Hawaiians sacrificed many a pig, many a steer, precious possessions. In caverns formed by the hardened lava, the corpses of ancient kings and the loftier chieftains were interred, with weapons, canoes, feather cloaks, as richly red and yellow as volcanic fires...