Word: tableclothes
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Then they bowed. As the Americans filed out, Mayor Kihara handed each of them a New Year's gift-a tablecloth and napkin set-from the "City of Hiroshima...
...turning up in his rooms on a highly unprofessional midnight visit. Since most of the medical staff seem to be only about two jumps ahead of the screaming meemies, no one pays much attention when "Psychiatrist" Peck begins to twitch and grimace over a few fork marks on the tablecloth. But Analyst Bergman quickly diagnoses her love object for the amnesia case he is. When he flees to New York she follows, determined to rescue him with psychiatry from a putative murder rap-and the Hitchcock chase...
...peacemakers met in a conference room near Athens. On the hearth a synthetic fire glowed-electric lights under hunks of glass coal. The delegates were aglow too, the talks were cordial. Over a variegated tablecloth the debate went on amiably till after midnight. Later pro-Russian Sofianopoulos swapped yarns with pro-Russian Siantos about old times when they had both been exiled by Dictator John Metaxas...
...coast of France: what happened in the poppy fields and in the ancient towns of Normandy was the first concern of all, by night & day. But the people's look at the war went farther, far beyond Normandy. For months the U.S., as a nation of tablecloth strategists, had been preoccupied with the coming of Dday. But as soon as it had happened, "Second Front" at once became as archaic a phrase as "defense bonds." For the invasion of France made not a Second but a Seventh Front...
...raised on the Tribune. My first paddling was with a rolled-up Tribune. On picnics in Lincoln Park it was our tablecloth...