Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They came into the news last week only indirectly, when, joined in the Bureau of the Budget, they began working as a team. The new team of trouble shooters already had the feel of working in harness. They were not high-strung race horses, as many another brain-truster has been. But in wartime Washington, with tough stumps to be yanked up and hard rows of work to be done, they were doing heavy duty...
...already had such an agreement with Admiral Robert-but it was pre-Laval. Now the U.S. asked Robert to sign on the dotted line all over again. It looked simple-behind Admiral Hoover and Sam Reber stood the massed strength of five nearby U.S. naval bases, strung between Trinidad and Puerto Rico. In Washington this week French Ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye said his Government (i.e., Laval) had not told him to protest...
...Another crew, forced down in the wilds of New Guinea, slept in their plane, awoke next morning to find themselves surrounded by little G-strung men who carried wicked three-foot knives. An airman from Coweta, Okla., shivering from dengue fever, and his hale companion from Springfield, Ill. both got good care, found they were among benevolent neutrals. Said one of the natives: "Jap come, we friend him; white man come, we friend...
Dartmouth and Princeton are momentarily deadlocked for the League lead with a record of two wins and one defeat each. Strung along the .500 fence are Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell with Penn and Yale bringing up the rear...
...Franciscan who took up architecture after a spell at Yale and with Manhattan's Hood & Fouilhoux. John Ekin Dinwiddie, a pupil of famed Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen, has very unconventional ideas. He sometimes builds houses that are not units at all, but chains of completely separated rooms, strung on intervening porticos and passageways...