Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain. They had waited & waited for their own Party leaders, for Winston Churchill himself to go on the offensive. Off their back benches the young Tories had not been silent. Some were bitterly outspoken. In the Tory Daily Mail young, Tory-reformist Quintin Hogg wrote of the Conservative "Rip van Winkles." One day last week Conservative prestige hit a new low and simmering young Tory dissatisfaction reached the boiling point. In Commons Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison triumphantly announced more steps toward the nationalization of British industries. He added Britain's gas and electric utilities, railroads and other inland...
...bring French women up to date on what has happened to the rest of the world in the past five years, Mme. Lazareff, in a frantic fortnight in Manhattan, gathered up data on postwar kitchens, Sinclair Lewis' Cass Timberlane (to run serially), news of Sinatra, Van Johnson and other wartime discoveries...
...Waterfield is fresh out of col lege. He started being a football hero at Van Nuys (Calif.) High School, where he met a well-stacked, laughing-eyed girl named Jane Russell. At U.C.L.A. he soon became a standout - and a constant source of worry to his teammates, who feared that Howard Hughes's actress "find" was distracting Bob's mind from football. Jane notwithstanding (he married her in 1943), Bob was the star of the 1942 U.C.L.A...
...Viennese Scholar Gustav Glük pointed to the glutton seated halfway down the table with the spoon in his mouth, perhaps because he is the only man looking straight out of the canvas. But his unimportant position at the festive board seems to rule him out. Baron van der Elst (The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages) decided that the groom just wasn't there. He backed up his opinion with an old Flemish proverb: " 'It's a poor man who is not able to eat at his own wedding.' That seems...
...remembers the texture of things - a squirrel's fur, the thickening of a horse's mane in the frost, the glint of armor and the impact of wind on the pennons in the van. The imagery is swift, the pen races the thought, the heart beats time, the invention never falters, but be neath and around all this there is an atmosphere of tender pity, of universal friendliness, of how mellow a wisdom, how golden a simplicity...