Word: webbings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British are foolish-fond of their railroads, as they are of any public inconvenience that has been around for more than 100 years. Sprouting from the main lines, branch tracks lace the map like a web spun by a Stakhanovite spider. One-and two-car trains jog across the countryside as leisurely and erratically as the village gossip on her daily rounds. Except on the crack trains, cars are dirty, creaky, ramshackle and old, though also comfortable in a musty, antimacassar way. Cartoonist Rowland Emett has epitomized both Britain's love and loathing in Punch's "FarTwittering...
...still tangled web woven by the Fields, one thread lay clear as a trail of blood on snow. In their five years in Communist hands, the Communists had used the American name of Field in trial after trial, until it became a symbol of death...
Besides Manhattan, half a dozen big U.S. cities may soon be customers for the Goodyear passenger belt. Cincinnati is considering a belt-car system to serve 80 congested downtown blocks. So are Montreal, Cleveland, San Francisco, Atlanta, and São Paulo, Brazil, which is thinking of a web of conveyor-belt sidewalks...
Soundly trounced in the Senate, Italy's Communists and fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists turned to the Chamber of Deputies last week in their effort to choke the anti-Communist government of Mario Scelba with the tangled web of the Montesi case...
...USSR will show definite indications of good faith on these issues, the new proposal holds the possibility for actual disarmament gains. But the United States must not be so anxious to find merit in the Soviet plan that it becomes tangled in a web of fruitless argument and delay. Should this happen the hopeful steps made with the "atoms for peace" program will be lost in the storms of debate...