Word: webs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Web. In Cairo, 140 miles east of the Chianti bottle, General Sir Harold Alexander, Commander of the Middle East, pored over reports telling the story of the battle. He sat in close communion with a thin, jug-eared man, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder. Upon these two depended the fate of Allied power in the Mediterranean. In their strategical structure, Egypt is the keystone...
From afar the communication lines of both sides ran like threads of a web into the desert battlefield of Egypt. From Italy and Crete, Axis transports on the sea and in the air, plagued by Allied planes, tried to rush reinforcements and supplies. Across French Equatorial Africa tortuous lines fed aid to Montgomery; men of De Gaulle hacked new routes through the jungle. U.S. and British freighters rounded the Cape, climbed the side of East Africa and plowed into the Red Sea. The web covered half the world...
...circumstances that begat the two different types have, in this discussion, nothing to do with the case. Most jazzmen would be amazed at the similarity between strict jazz and the thoroughbass music of Bach's time. In both cases you have the rigid rhythmic pattern over which an intricate web of thematic variations is woven. Bach's work had the advantage of being composed by a single highly developed talent, while jazz has to depend on a rare combination of many talents, a band where each player can give the theme a unique personal twist without destroying the musical continuity...
...British, Russians or Chinese on any of the Allied land and sea fronts. Or from Army troops and cargo ships in the Atlantic, the North Sea, the Barents Sea, the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, the Persian Gulf. Or from waypoints in the Army's spreading, global web of airlines...
...Half of Arizona's cantaloupes have spoiled in the fields. Ten thousand acres of costly alfalfa went to seed uncut. The State's output of long staple cotton, threefourths of the U.S. supply and used for parachute web and machine-gun belts, is threatened. Casa Grande valley farmers paid $4 a day for workers they used to get for $40 a month-and saw those farm hands go off to $1.12-an-hour jobs building camps for 10,000 relocated Japanese. Most of the Japanese are farmers from California; now they sit idly in the shade, watching...