Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Draftee Waite, a war-plant guard, reckoned without the men he worked with. At quitting time they bustled out to Waite's lot at the edge of town, hammered away through the twilight, strung up a makeshift electric light, kept hammering long after dark...
...peasants yanked the German pictures out of their frames. They rested at night in damaged German automobiles and trucks. On their first day "home" they strung lines between the trucks and hung out washing to dry. Life went on. It went on throughout all the vast provinces of Russia. The hour had come when the Russian people, their instincts sharpened by grinding centuries of oppression, famine and revolution, remembered the first law-survival...
Chemist, Physicist, Speculator. Shy, high-strung James Conant, 49, made his reputation as a first-rate organic chemist before Harvard named him president in 1933. In World War I, as a major in the chemical-warfare division, he closeted himself in an old auto factory near Cleveland to perfect deadly Lewisite gas. A firm believer in free academic research, he early spotted the Hitler menace, urged U.S. entry into the war long before Pearl Harbor...
...blow was struck up from Down Under at the exotic Melanesian land of the Solomon Islands, a fringe of volcanic peaks strung for 600 miles across the northern end of the Coral Sea, 900 miles from Australia's coast (see map). It was no mere raid. It was an attack in force. The Navy was out to take the Solomons from the Jap-and with them the threat they held to the supply line from the U.S. to Australia, and to Australia itself...
...Next day he shouted that Senator Mead was not even a New Dealer-because Mead opposed Franklin Roosevelt's St. Lawrence River power and seaway project. (Jim Mead, resident of Buffalo, had strung along with Buffalo businessmen on this...