Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ludwig (or Lewine), Gestapo agent and "honorary Aryan," had a trap door in front of his desk which, in his heyday, he used to snap open by means of a concealed button. Said he: "In this work [spying] one must be prepared to spirit away undesirable elements without a trace." Last week Ludwig had vanished without a trace...
...That apparent casualness and man-to-man friendliness which rather appalled our disciplinarians at home disappears. Commands are tersely given and tersely acknowledged with an immediate 'Yes, sir,' and a smart salute. All trace of casualness evaporates. These men go to it with the snap of Guardsmen...
...dreams are usually so elaborately interwoven that even the most prominent incidents and characters invite multiple interpretations. "Indeed," conclude the authors, "the baffling obscurity of Finnegans Wake may be due to [Joyce's] determination to muddy the track of his narrative with a thousand collateral imprints, lest we trace him to the scene of his own life secret, which he yet describes in compulsive half-revelation." Campbell and Robinson offer no key to Joyce's life...
Within a week, despite rains that would have washed out normal insecticides, the caterpillar population was liquidated with out a trace. Entomologist C. F. Campbell thereupon gaily offered a dollar bounty (out of his own pocket) for every live caterpillar found in the treated area. By last week he had not lost a dollar...
...Japanese commentators on the News From Japan program "sink our ships one day and have them turn up a week later to be bombed from the air by daring Japanese pilots." The broadcasters do not give their names, but some of them sound amazingly American, with hardly a trace of the common Oriental difficulty over...