Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train chugged through Potsdam, past the tall pine trees that shade the Soviet Headquarters. When I sat down in Heinz Depper's compartment, he was looking at a big Red banner strung across a main street. The sign said: "Vote 'Ja' for democracy." It was part of a propaganda campaign for the Communist People's Congress "elections" this week...
...Charley Henry, the peddler, was a familiar figure in Winchester, Va. (pop.: 14,000), for he had lived there all his life. A few oldtimers remembered him as a young man, standing tall and straight by his vegetable cart or striding briskly down to the Lutheran Church with his wife Fannie on his arm. But as the years passed, Charley had changed; he was no longer the laughing, lively fellow he had once been...
Into President Truman's offices one day last week went his three-man Council of Economic Advisers, to give him their report on the U.S. economy. Tall, gaunt old Chairman Edwin G. Nourse adjusted his pince-nez, cleared his throat, and informed the President that the U.S. was still in "a healthy state of disinflation." It had not "fallen...
Like many a wife who suddenly finds herself a widow, tall and comely Margaret Chandler Porter had a tough choice. She could sell her husband's business, or try to run it-at the risk of running it into the ground. The business Claude Tillinghast Porter left behind when he died in 1946 was a wholesale paint firm (whose slogan was "The Painter's Friend"), the St. Louis outlet of his brother's thriving Porter Paint Co. of Louisville. Margaret Porter decided...
...every word he heard. Sir Isaac Newton and Philosopher Thomas Hobbes were his friends, and he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, where he knew John Dryden and Christopher Wren. No man to take irretrievable sides in 17th Century politics, he not only recorded Charles I's tall hunting stories but later listened to Cromwell declaiming at dinner that in all England Devon husbandry was best. When Charles II came home from exile, Aubrey was on hand again, recording the occasion when a Mr. Evans, who had "a fungous nose . . . kissed the King's hand and rubbed...