Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toward the 1944 U.S. goal of 34 billion board feet, which Government officials gloomily doubt that the nation can meet, he was bossing the St. John's first big log drive (45 million ft.) in five years. His goal was the whitewashed village of Keegan, Me. There the Van Buren Madawaska Lumber Corp. is preparing, with government assistance, to reopen the East's biggest sawmill...
Ernest Bevin, the bull elephant of British labor, last week sat bulkily silent, beadily watchful, in the back row at a caucus of Parliament's Laborite members. The proposal: to expel from the Party his homonym-pink, grizzled Welshman Aneurin Bevan. The crime: Laborite Be-van's revolt against Labor Minister Bevin in the House of Commons...
Even more accurate, in an easier role, is Victor Varconi. He thickened his eye brows, blended the mannerisms of a body guard and a devoted wife, became a dead ringer for Rudolf Hess. Luis Van Rooten's Heinrich Himmler is verisimilitudinous enough to make flesh crawl. Even when resemblances are not quite accurate, casting and the general performance are psychologically effective. Goring's jocund tigerishness is embodied by a bulky Hungarian named Alexander Pope. Martin Kosleck does not look much like Joseph Goebbels but manages to capture Goebbels' sidelong glide, his peculiar blend of cynicism and venom...
...sport almost untouched by the war is Harlem's colored cricket. Last week the slim, supple bowlers and batsmen of the two big leagues, the New York and the Cosmopolitan, were out for spring practice in the vast green reaches of Van Cortlandt Park...
Most of the players and onlookers are West Indians. There are ten eleven-man teams in the New York League, six in the Cosmopolitan. After a summer's play in Van Cortlandt Park, a "world series" is held between the leagues in the Randalls Island Stadium...