Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloves? Money? Cigarettes? Matches? Yes; and I had an umbrella for its tempests, and a latchkey for my safe return...
...Imam's capital is Sana, an almost impregnable city (pop. 40,000), which had a 20-story building 19 centuries before" New York. There, in the hot morning sun, the Imam sits under the Tree of Justice before the palace gates, a soldier holding a royal umbrella over him while he dispenses direct and parsimonious judgments to his subjects. Most of them accept his word as the Koran's law but, just to be sure, the Imam keeps as hostages 4,000 sons of chieftains and bureaucrats...
...tremendous figures: for the National Guard, it proposed to keep 574,900 officers & men trained for the ground forces (double the prewar figure) and 47,600 for the Air Forces (a ninefold increase). The minutemen of the atomic age would man 22 infantry and two armored divisions, under an umbrella of 84 interceptor and observation squadrons...
...very long ago-in the year when Chamberlain waved his umbrella, crying "Peace in our time"-an unknown young woman was writing radio scripts, in Chicago. Her name was Craig Rice and she was all of 30. To her the era of peace just ending had meant a dozen years of bohemian life: three bungled attempts at marriage; innumerable failures to write poetry, novels and music; barely successful efforts to earn a living around newspapers ; and some definite progress in helping local bohemians support the distilling industry. This slightly dated era of peace-in-her-time was ended...
...days later, on a rainy afternoon, Bill Green visited the White House, came out carrying an umbrella and feeling somewhat appeased: "I disagree with Mr. Murray . . . that the President is seeking to destroy unions. I don't feel that he is trying to do that." The President had told him, he reported, that the plan was designed to avoid really "vicious" anti-labor laws. But Bill Green, though mollified, was still dead-set against fact-finding boards and cooling-off periods...