Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe's battlefields, none had erased more of the scars of war than Belgium. As soon as the Germans vacated one end of a town, Belgians began repairing their roofs at the other. Under the energetic guidance of Socialist Premier van Acker, a basketmaker's son, they had gone on repairing, rebuilding. The dynamic, 52-year-old Premier personally directed the basic "battle of coal," lifted production from a piddling 23,000 tons daily at the beginning of 1945 to a thumping 80,000 tons daily at the end. Iron & steel, power output soared. Currency...
Because Premier van Acker's Socialist-Communist-Liberal coalition had kept the nation's nose close to the grindstone, Brussels shop windows bulged with food, clothing, luxuries. The size and variety of Belgian rations made French mouths water...
...Van Johnson, sunny-faced Hollywood hero, got the proof that he was a full-fledged popular idol: when he visited New Orleans, a couple of bobby-soxers went out of their way to tell him he was no good. He was, said they, a d. d. d.-dismal, dehydrated drip...
Chicago's show, "Drawings Old and New," would have been even more blasphemous to the French perfectionist. On exhibition were a Van Gogh landscape made of a briar patch of angry, tangled pen strokes; a Picasso drawing of two nudes which looked like sacks of coal (and another which might have been a doodle by Raphael); Group of Draped Standing Figures (headless) by British Sculptor Henry Moore; a wildly sketched, toad-faced "Conqueror" hoisting a stein of beer, by Mexican José Clemente Orozco. But even Ingres might have been willing to admit the simplicity and tenderness of Sculptor...
...Currently rumored to be taking a sentimental sleigh ride with sox-appealing Van Johnson...