Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last fortnight Lightkeeper James Richard Hutt, 33, picked up his shotgun, set off down the shore to add some ducks and rabbits to the family larder. By dusk he had not returned. His slight, dark-haired wife, Pauline, climbed the steep steps of the lighthouse tower, and lit the twin wicks herself...
...Japs had a long, skinny, twin-engine reconnaissance plane which could have taken off from Tokyo, scouted the U.S. West Coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles and got home again. So say the Japs. Early in July 1944, they claim, their A26 flew a record-breaking 10,160 miles nonstop in 57 hours, over a closed course* in Manchuria, and landed with enough fuel for another 1,870 miles...
...separate maintenance of $1,000 a week. Wall Streeter William N. Davey had the money, said she, but they didn't get along: 1) he drank too much; 2) she wanted to live at her place on Fifth Avenue, he at his on Park; 3) she liked twin beds, he a double one big enough to sleep a ball team; 4) he talked about building her a yacht with a glass bathroom, but never did. "I realized," said Actress Swanson, "that...
...nobody liked. Americans resented being called Shylocks for having made the loan at quasi-commercial terms. In England, the House of Lords accepted it even more bitterly than had the House of Commons (TIME, Dec. 24). Lord Woolton called it "degradation." The loan was linked to Bretton Woods* as twin shackles on Britain's economic freedom...
...twin, David Whitmire, is assistant publisher of the Los Angeles Herald & Express...