Word: whisk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Allied world heard Nazi plans for going underground, reports of secret training for underground Nazis, secret hideouts in the Black Forest and Bavaria, bold schemes to whisk Belgium's King Leopold, Stalin's son Jacob and other distinguished prisoners of the Germans to Japan by submarine. There they would be held as hostages in case Allied threats to bring Nazi war criminals to trial meant business. Behind these schemes stirred the shadow of the Feme, once more emerging from the twilight...
...wooded hills around Pinczow in southern Poland, guerrillas swooped on the town one wet and windy night last month, set free 500 fellow-fighters, awaiting execution. An old story was revived in neutral capitals: Hitler, Göring & Goebbels keep a long-range private plane in readiness to whisk them to Japan...
This was a resounding victory for Attorney General Francis Biddle, and a whacking defeat for not only the governors, but the States' rights bloc in Congress. In a futile race with the Supreme Court, the States-righters had popped bills into both Houses of Congress, aimed to whisk the insurance business out from under the antitrust acts (TIME, Nov. 29). Their contention: insurance regulation is a concern of the states, not the federal government, and has been so held by the Supreme Court for 75 years...
Britons who rate among life's necessities the hot, soaking bath complete with whisk, sponge and loofah got a jolt last week. It came from testy, aging (78) Viscount Maugham, elder brother of Novelist W. Somerset Maugham. Said the Viscount, during a House of Lords debate on water shortage: "As pleasant as it is to have a daily bath, it is not really necessary to health. Many lads who came back from Africa had not had a bath in three months and they will tell you they were none the worse. A bath very largely is a luxury...
...proper archeologist is equipped for the most delicate digging and examinations with a small trowel, whisk broom, toothbrush, bellows and old fork-handy for cleaning out skulls. First the site is measured and mapped. Then the sod is stripped away and the soil is carefully peeled off, layer by layer, usually with trowels. Old holes, long since filled up, get special attention. They may show where houses stood, help toward determining the plan of a community. Dr. Wissler says: "To overlook them when digging is inexcusable. With practice they are easily dissected out." Other old holes may be trash pits...