Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack on the Empire's capital was going on, the impatient Americans in Luzon were rushing back onto Bataan and Corregidor. Other Americans swarmed ashore on Iwo Jima-an island as menacingly close to Japan's heart as Bermuda is to New York. The war-worn Chinese rallied to take back a section of the hard-won Canton-Hankow railway line. A jungle-trekking British force popped up to menace the conquered oil-field district of Burma. There were more fires than fire brigades, around the Empire; and the alarm bells still clanged...
...word for spring. The soft feminine look, with released fullness-is important. The little-girl look of controlled sophistication-is important. The most exciting new color combinations are light spruce green and tender pink, and yellow with ethereal blue. Of course, red, white & blue will also be worn...
Selective Moving. U.S. divisions will leave much of their equipment where it is to save time and precious cargo space. Galoshes, snowpacks, etc., useful in Europe, are no good in the Pacific. Tanks, jeeps, trucks, bulldozers, steam engines and countless items of heavy equipment worn with use will not be worth the space needed to ship them. The same goes for small arms, which wear rapidly in combat and will mostly be left behind. The one exception will be heavy equipment which is hard to replace (e.g., big guns...
...familiar Chopin waltzes, preludes, and nocturnes, together with some of the less well-worn pieces--nearly two dozen works in all--are woven into the story of a man torn between love for a woman and love for country; and all are brilliantly played by Jose Iturhi...
...addition, many of the tools would have little peacetime value, because they were either designed solely for war work or were all but worn out by round-the-clock production. Furthermore, Britain was barred by agreement from selling the tools abroad for at least five years after V-E day, thus protecting the U.S. machine-tool industry's export markets...