Word: wick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeared, were still champs: no U.S. entry could match the tonal subtlety of the winter landscapes by France's Christian Caillard and Roger Chapelain-Midy, or the sophistication of Oscar Dominguez' half-abstract Christmas tree, with its candles that cast pointed black shadows from each glowing wick, or the wit of Gustave Singier's bright blue abstraction, Noel Provencal, which looked as mindlessly gay and involved as a game of pick-up-sticks. What the U.S. entrants lacked in know-how they almost made up for in energy and imagination. Joseph Hirsch's Journey...
...just borne an illegitimate baby. Tattered cotton coverlets lay in disorder on the only three beds. Chunks of plaster had fallen from the walls, exposing the laths. There was no heat; water came from a faucet in the yard. The young Negro wife giggled in embarrassment, twiddled the wick of the oil lamp that furnished the only light...
...development of the torch-light parade was delayed by the Civil War, but in 1868 the College, Republicans all, terrified Boston. Every student put on his class uniform, bought himself a shingle, a plug hat, and a black bottle with a wick in it, and went on the march for Grant and Seymour...
...WICK C. KENNEDY Camden...
...dozed in the daytime, stayed awake nights "so there would not be too many warm beds in case of a Gestapo raid." Three of the hunted, Peter Goldschmidt (22), Simon van Keulen (19) and Harry Op het Veld (19) spent their nights sitting around a table lit by a wick in brilliantine, drawing. There was not much paper, so they took as long as possible on each picture...