Word: sweaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atom bomb was the creation of France's long-dead Henri Becquerel, who discovered radioactivity, and the Curies, who discovered radium. It was the creation of Albert Einstein, sitting quietly in an old sweater, keeping his speculative pencil always pointed close to the secrets of physics...
Ernie Bevin, who has spent 31 years in politics, is even more cautious than Jimmy Byrnes. With a wary look in his eye, Bevin arrived in Moscow swaddled in a heavy woolen suit, a thick olive-drab sweater, an enormous fur-lined and collared black coat and fleece-lined boots. He had to turn side wise to ease himself out of the plane's door...
...something went wrong with Joe and his vision. In spite of his nightly visitation, he was still just a shabby little boy in a shapeless sweater. He grew sullen and peevish. When photographers took his picture he sometimes grinned and postured, but sometimes he kicked them in the shins or tried to tear up their film. He was not always kind to the people, ill or maimed, who sought his help; once he shouted to a roomful of them: "Get out of here...
Rummaging in the Governor's closet, he appropriated a battered hat, an exclamatory sweater knitted by Vancouver Island Indians. He won a $5 bet from Governor Wallgren that his own suit was the older (it was bought in 1939). He rose early to stroll on the wide lawns, sometimes played the piano before breakfast. Going to the Capitol, he sat down at an organ under the lofty, music-amplifying dome, launched into Beethoven's Minuet in G and the Blackhawk Waltz. Then, with the Governor and Press Secretary Charlie Ross, he sang Peggy O'Neil and Melancholy...
This week, rested and refreshed, he took off the gaudy Indian sweater, prepared to fly to San Francisco and take up again the burdens of the Presidency...