Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indeed uttered the roseate words. Quickly Nelson called a press conference of his own. There he tried, without flatly contradicting his chief, to puncture the fond new hope. But good news travels faster than bad; many a citizen still believed, at week's end, that his present well-worn tires were not his last...
Nightshirts. WPB had already cut an inch and a half off men's shirttails, had forbidden pockets and pointed collars, to save material. Last week WPB discussed pajamas, considered restricting sleeping garments to three styles: one shortened version of the old-fashioned nightshirt (now worn voluntarily by only 1% of U.S. males), two types of pajamas stripped of collars, lapels, pockets, sashes, piping...
Though his mother back in New Jersey had worn black for a month, Michael Wajda, ship's electrician, was not dead. While the raft under him drifted in the doldrums, he clung to life, alternately raved, mumbled and lay insensate under the equatorial sun. Last week came word that after 46 days on the flotsam-cradling sea he had been picked up near Georgetown, British Guiana, was recovering in a hospital there...
Already Germany had destroyed Malta's value as a main operating base for the British Fleet. It had worn down the island to the point where, by British accounts, bomber raids from Malta into Italy had come to an end. All that was left was the island, and the Axis wanted that...
Shut the Door. Navy exams, as described by Lieut. Herbert I. Harris of the Newport Training Station, are equally strict. Recruits come before the psychiatrist when they are worn out from physical tests, completely naked, identified only by a mercurochrome number on their chests. To a tired, jittery "boot," a session with the psychiatrist is like walking the plank. Wary examiners, said Lieut. Harris, are suspicious of boys who speak up first (normal boys are silent until the doctor questions them), those who fail to close the door, or fling down their papers on the table. But regional differences, said...