Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney cows got their names from three lush islands strung along the west coast of the Normandy peninsula, at the end of which lies Cherbourg Harbor. All within 30 miles of France, the Channel Islands nevertheless belonged to Great Britain (each with a proud little provincial Government of its own). When the Germans extended their grip down Europe's west coast to the Spanish border, the English Channel became No Man's Land. But not until last week did 95,000 Channel Islanders recognize that fact and, on orders from London, begin to move...
...soon they arrived, Secretary Hull at n p.m., Jay Pierrepont Moffat (Chief of the European Division) in a dinner jacket and black tie, Assistant Secretary Berle to spend the night at his desk. Correspondents also knew that from U. S. diplomats abroad reports would come fast: ¶Dapper, high-strung, Harvard-bred Minister Gordon at The Hague (who had spent most of the two nights before telephoning Washington ) got through an early wire of warning at 2:50 a.m., reported in a later telephone conversation that he could hardly hear himself talk because of anti-aircraft and machine-gun fire...
...Atlantic City, Dr. Reuben Friedman of Temple University told the American Association of the History of Medicine about Napoleon: he always posed with one hand under his waistcoat, said Dr. Friedman, because he suffered from dermatitis herpetiformis, an itch that attacks high-strung people...
...Yardling Smoker in Memorial Hall. "We landed at Providence and three gentlemen came aboard looking for us. They said they were from Harvard and that they would drive us up to Cambridge so that we would avoid the 'big crowd' at the Boston airport. So we strung along...
...almost every other big city in the U. S., Philadelphia had no real art museum until after World War I. In 1919 hardboiled, gimlet-eyed Quaker Lawyer Eli Kirk Price started pulling political strings, got a modest $200,000 appropriation "to build a museum of art at Fairmount," then strung the city fathers along year by year until he had a $12,000,000 building. "He knew if we did the ends first, we'd have to finish the middle sometime," says bulky, bustling Fiske Kimball, who in 1925 left his job as head of New York University...