Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knows most about bark canoes this week was happily polishing off his masterpiece: a book comparing the primitive canoes of America, Australasia and Tierra del Fuego. He is grey, lean E. (for Edwin) Tappan Adney, the most distinguished resident of Upper Woodstock...
...Ohio. Thus Adney accounts for his insight into the Indian mind. Ohio-born, he became a naturalized Canadian to qualify for a World War I Engineers' commission. Now he frets that he must register as a "British subject." He lives alone in a small cottage among Upper Woodstock's towering elms. He puts down his own pickles, launders his own shirts. He likes to speed parting guests with an ancient Malecite blessing: "May the horns of Wiwilamehkw (wee-willa-menka) protect you and your goods...
...heavy artillery barrages settled over Cassino like constant squalls of steel, slicing the buildings down while soldiers fled from the upper to the lower stories, then to the basements. Whole squads disappeared beneath collapsing walls. The limits of the barrage froze something approximating a battle line running through the town, with a No-Man's Land sometimes only ten yards wide. Any soldier who stepped into that strip in daylight was a dead...
...upper economic level is 5-to-3 Republican and the upper-middle level 4-to-3 Republican. The lower-middle economic level is 4-to-3 Democratic and lowest economic level is 5-to-2 Democratic...
...fine day, a Norwegian Storm Trooper came to be on the steps of the White House at the head of his patrol. He entered between mighty pillars into a large half-lit vestibule. A portrait of George Washington hung on the wall. A broad marble staircase led to the upper floors. On each landing hung a gigantic star-spangled banner. Then suddenly he stood in front of a glass door. The President's study! But . . . chairs were flung about . . . papers were strewn across the floor. . . . How quiet...