Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the jagged Badlands, over the rolling plains of stubble wheat, and even in Watford City (pop. 1,087), there were still solid patches of snow. But the miracle had happened. Throughout North Dakota, the big thaw had come. The hard-bitten men who farm the northern tip of the onetime poverty-stricken U.S. "dust bowl" had survived a decade of dust, drought. WPA, grasshoppers, mortgages. Now, after a three-year spell of war and golden weather, they could afford a little fun in town...
...World War I, surgeons succeeded in removing several bullets from soldiers' hearts. But their most famous case was a British officer who underwent a long operation to extract a bullet from his heart. Finally the surgeon gave up. The officer was still alive at last report. The tip of the bullet had worked its way into one of his heart chambers, swung like a clapper in a small bell with every heartbeat...
...Cougar-on-the-paw average about eight feet from nose to tail tip. Cougar skins without cougar in them run longer. From now on TIME'S catamount editor has been directed to bring them back alive...
...MacArthur's unexpected swoop into the Admiralty Islands last week tightened a noose around the Bismarck Archipelago (see map), attention was fixed on a Jap-held prize on the northern tip of New Britain. Rabaul, a great naval and air base, only 830 miles from Truk, may be MacArthur's next target...
...Montgomery, Philadelphia Negro challenger for Beau Jack's lightweight crown, stood naked in a noisy gathering. He was weighing in for his 15-round bout with Jack (TIME, Nov. 23, 1942) last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. To be eligible, he could not tip the scales at more than 135 Ib. And he was tipping them...