Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whalebone tough as he is, Henry Ford had never expected (until recently) to outlive his only son. All his life Edsel was the pupil, his father the teacher, empire management the subject. As a baby, Edsel watched his father tinker with his first horseless carriage, rode proudly on a special little seat when it first sputtered along Detroit's dusty Bagley Avenue...
Seventeen were captured by the Japs in the Philippine campaign. Three were wounded in New Guinea. Five Air Forces generals - Tinker, Harold H. ("Pursuit") George, Ken Walker, Ramey and Asa Duncan - have been lost in action or operations against the enemy. Two other Air Forces general officers (Dargue and Wash) have been killed in operations...
Proposer Lambert and Laborite John Tinker, who had seconded the nomination, then advanced purposefully on Brown, to drag him from his seat. As Brown made the requisite gesture of protest, the two men seized his arms, separated him from his chair. (Origin of this tradition: during the 15th Century, Speakers were apt to be hanged by the King, so a new Speaker was understandably reluctant...
...swamp cattails. Just before they burst into full-blown feather, the brown seed clumps can be milled into lightweight, water-resistant fluff suitable for stuffing and padding-and expected to work satisfactorily in life jackets. The discovery of this homely substitute is credited to Dr. Charles Frederick Burgess, thinker-tinker president of Burgess Battery Co., 1942 winner of the Acheson Medal, electrochemistry's highest award...
...Desi Arnaz) who recites: "Your contry made my contry free, now I make your contry free." There is a comedy gob, his mouth all corners, who keeps tuning in on the Dodgers, though any radio aboard would have been sealed* before the Sybil Gray sailed. There is a radio-tinker on whose set the Nazi code is at last unscrambled, bringing warning to his ship, danger to the enemy...