Word: wicker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Children. Auburn-haired Michael and MacDonald, brunette Maureen and Madeline came into a home ready for only one baby. They were wrapped in cotton batting and pink-&-blue shawls, put into an "emergency" sideboard drawer and carried to wicker cots and baskets in Heanor's nursing home. Three-pound MacDonald, the last to arrive, died in his sixth day. His brother and sisters seemed to be doing well on a diet of milk, water, glucose, Vitamins...
...after most other delegates had settled down. Coming across the straight, after a visit with his mother at Owosso, Mich., he hopped off the boat, was whisked away in a four-seated carriage. Soon he was holding a press conference for the 100 newsmen lounging in big wicker chairs at G.O.P. headquarters in the elegant, white-colonnaded Grand Hotel ("longest porch in the world...
Officers. After dinner officers are nominally free, though many work some evenings. They wander from the long, polished-floored, white-walled dining hall to the glassed-in porch furnished with comfortable wicker chairs and tables with magazines, and they read or write, play with a bulldog puppy named Winston Churchill or go out on the stone porch to play ping-pong with WAAFs. Some stroll out on the thick, ruglike lawn and bang croquet balls inexpertly through wickets, using golf terms because they do not know croquet nomenclature. Officers are flooded with local invitations. Many country Britons write, mentioning lovely...
...activity is the deluxe Shepheard's Hotel, where males in civvies look as out of place as nuns in a nudist colony. During the day the broad mosaic-floored terrace is empty while the officers are at work. The brown wicker chairs begin to fill around 6:30 p.m., and by 7:30, the hour the bar opens, every seat is occupied. Most people drink rye highballs, Scotch & sodas, or gin & tonics. Nearly everyone wears a different kind of uniform. Sprinkled here & there among the crowd are American and British correspondents seeking crumbs of information, and satisfying their thirst...
...Irene Wicker, NBC's "Singing Lady," added her voice. "You men are writers," she said, "you know what you are talking about. Write. Write. And write for the children as well. . . . Children, too, must know for what men are dying." Her 19-year-old son had just been killed in action with the Royal Canadian Air Force...