Word: stubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denver, last week, a towering, stoop-shouldered, stub-bearded old Scotsman pushed back his chair from behind an ancient rolltop desk, clapped on his battered Stetson at a rakish angle, and ambled through the door. Lord Ogilvy, 79, ace feature writer on the Denver Post for the last 30 years, started down the street...
...were sunk in the Sea of Galilee, it would displace more water than any of them. It owes its cubic capacity to one austere little man-Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York. When he succeeded to the see in 1921, St. John's consisted of an abrupt stub: a Romanesque choir and crossing. Bishop Manning (with the aid of professional Money Raisers Tamblyn & Brown) infected New York City with a cathedral-building itch, scratched up some $15,000,000, transformed his Romanesque stub into a soaring Gothic pile. Bishop Manning will be remembered as a cathedral builder...
Last fortnight, as Germany's fighting machine swept into the Low Countries, the Army Cooperation components under Vice Marshal Blount went into long awaited action, speeding ahead of Lord Gort's advancing columns, searching out German mechanized units and dropping the light bombs they carry in the stub wings below their main wings, pbo" ∧Traphing, ground strafing with their L.ree machine guns although Messerschmitts and Junkers blackened the sky. Their chief targets were the dive bombers which systematically strafed advancing columns of Lord Gort's Army and sometimes machine gunned refugees to slow up the advance...
...lost none of his sharpness, none of his homespun ruggedness. Bald and stoop-shouldered, he always wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat and stiff collar. When he has a political chore to do in Raleigh, he collars legislators in hotel lobbies, doodles with a pencil stub on one of his shoe soles while he talks to them...
...rest, 79% are Bell, some 3% mutual system is so lackadaisical about repairs that they frequently have to make them themselves. No less archaic is the company's pole policy. When poles blow down or rot away, line men whack off the diseased portion, resink the stub into the ground. Result is that subscribers sometimes have to stoop to get under the wires...