Word: stoppered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show-stopper was boyish, bespectacled Representative Wayne Hill, 26, just honorably discharged from the Army as a sergeant. Still in uniform, he flew in from Will Rogers Field, Okla. to address his fellow legislators: "I am cautioned that I will be sorry [for my stand]. . . . I am just as willing to die a political death as I am to die in battle to preserve American freedom...
...jets de Guerre. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened a "Useful Objects in Wartime" exhibit. Featured: baking pans made of paper, a cornhusk doormat, an open-top hamper-cart for the free wheeling of groceries, a plastic sink stopper, a felt eyeglass case...
...accomplished, or where it would lead. But there were grave dangers to ponder. It was true that the I.R.A. had received subsidies from Germany and had harbored German agents landed by parachute. It was more than ever evident that the Nazis, by occupying Eire, could put a stopper on the stream of supplies from the U.S. to Britain. It was a fact that the I.R.A. is as hostile to De Valera's Government as to the British. The facts : the Eire Government two years ago executed two I.R.A. men for shooting a Dublin policeman; at least 500 I.R.A...
...Stopper. In Boston, Dr. Richard H. Norton offered a solution (tested on his granddaughter) for the problem of thumb sucking by girls aged three and up: appeal to their vanity, paint their nails...
Soldiers walked along "London Street" last week to the post office to mail letters to their sweeties back home. They went to the well-stocked ordnance depot to get what they needed-anything from a new engine for a tank to a new stopper for a canteen. In a half-wrecked house on a square which someone had renamed Piazza Brown others listened to a phonograph grotesquely grinding out their favorite, Waltzing Matilda. A camouflage unit, fresh out of paint, improvised with captured Italian coffee (undrinkable), tomato sauce (condemned) and flour paste (plentiful...