Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accent is more Boston than any thing else (he was born in Kharkov, Russia, in 1899, the son of a successful novelist and playwright-grew tip in St. Petersburg-finished school there just before the revolution). He is low-voiced, restrained-and he wears rimless pinch-nose glasses (he served for five months as a machine gunner in the Ukrainian Army, then signed as seaman on a munitions ship bound for America-reached New York unable to speak English and with only 14? in Turkish money in his pocket. For months he worked as an engraver's assistant...
John Dewey Rides Again-One Christmas, Humorist Perelman decided to trim a Christmas tree. Advised Mademoiselle: "Dip tips of twisted cotton strips into India ink." Author Perelman went to work muttering: "Tip dips of twisted crotton sips. . . . Sip dips of cristed totton tips." Finally he surrendered to House & Garden's "inspiration of the season-an upside-down-evergreen tree swung from the ceiling...
...seized on the President's remark about "late spring," wrote a hot-&-heavy story that this was prime evidence that Franklin Roosevelt hoped still to be in the White House in the spring of 1945. No other correspondent went out on this limb. Most took it as a tip that another Roosevelt-Churchill meeting is on soon...
...powerful, seasoned invasion team -Army, Navy and Air - swung along the north coast of New Guinea, pounced on Biak, a large island only 300 miles from New Guinea's western tip. Once taken - a job at which the task force was bloodily busy this week - Biak would be a real strategic asset to the U.S. in its drive into Japan's inner defenses...
Biak has three airfields. It is less than 900 miles from Davao on the southern tip of the Philippines, about 500 miles from Palau, the Jap naval base in the western Carolines...