Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain fact was that the Axis enemies had lost the ability to take the offensive-Germany on her continent, Japan on her ocean. The Allies might be worn down by the strain of war, as Russia and Britain surely were. They might be drawn fiddlestring tight between two wars over vast distances-as the U.S. was. But they were on the offensive. And the longer they could drive themselves to stay on it, the sooner they could write the end of World...
...even the trouble some one in his groin, have not curbed his legendary virility, but they have reduced his ranging stride. Fortnight ago, when he met President Roosevelt on a U.S. cruiser in the Suez Canal (TIME, March 5), the King looked longingly at the President's well-worn wheelchair...
Said the editorial: "American forces are paying heavily for [Iwo Jima]-perhaps too heavily. . . . The same thing . . . happened at Tarawa and Saipan. . . . The American forces are in danger of being worn out before they ever reach [Japan], Plainly, what we need is ... General MacArthur. ... He outwits and outmaneuvers the Japanese. HE SAVES THE LIVES or HIS OWN MEN. . . ." That was not the way to talk to marines, and they had come to tell somebody...
...Washington, worked closely with the U.S. delegation. But he delighted correspondents by reviving that conference perennial, the striped-pants story. After reporters had smoked out a State Department memorandum recommending pin-striped pants, Ambassador Plaza announced: "I've told everyone in the U.S. that I've never worn them, and I certainly don't intend to start now." The A.P. quoted a conference...
Lilly Dache, dashing Manhattan milliner, came out with a "Yalta Turban" two days after the Crimea Conference. Purely by chance, she explained, pictures of costumes worn in the Black Sea area, had caught her fancy before the site of the Big-Three conference was announced...