Word: straws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military advisers. And he gallantly assured American women that the old saws about female curiosity were a canard: "The first people to look up from their work were the men-and not the women. It was chiefly the men who were arguing whether that fellow in the straw hat was really the President...
When construction workers walked out on a job at the Army's Brookley Field near Mobile last week, it was the last straw for Alabama's draft director, Brigadier General Ben M. Smith...
Genghis Khan solved the iron-ration problem by issuing each of his soldiers a straw so that his warriors could thus tap their horses' veins and drink the fortifying blood. The U.S. Army believes it may lick the iron-ration problem with Field Ration K-a three-meal package of concentrated food, which contains 3,726 calories and can be packed in a heat-and-cold-proof...
Leverett House residents were going around yesterday with happy smiles on their faces when the preference list for football seats was announced. For the result of the straw-drawing held in Athletic Director Bill Bingam's office yesterday morning saw the Bunny Hutch end up on top of the heap, with "Miscellaneous" (Dudley, rooming houses, and the like) running second...
Though men from every House were invited to the straw drawing, only five showed up. Edward L. Hadley '44 of Winthrop, choosing for Leverett, picked the longest straw. William A. Rich '44 of Kirkland, S. Leonard Kent '43 of Lowell, Peter Dorsey '44 of Eliot, and Abraham H. Sadove '43 of Adams were the men who did the choosing...