Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...force until he gets at least equality in numbers in a given area, and then throws everything he has at the Japs. He stays awake nights planning new tactics, or studying combat reports to search for Jap weaknesses. The next morning he will be at his well-worn maps, talking about what he could do here & there if he had a few more planes...
Announced the Nazis' Brussels radio: "The Strength Through Joy movement will celebrate its tenth anniversary today with a dancing festival in Berlin." Unhappily for bumptious, bottle-worn Robert Ley, the tenth anniversary of his beloved movement coincided with Berlin's blitz (see p. 30). Undaunted, the Labor Front leader took to the radio. Said he: "There is one particular thought that could drive me crazy-the thought that these war criminals of London, Washington and Moscow hinder...
Gone Again. But by week's end the spell had worn off. Out of WPB came sour reports: Don Nelson was gloomy again about the agency's future, might soon sit down and write another resignation...
Strange Play. Like actors in a well-worn play, the black-robed, white-wigged attorneys had waded through the tangle of circumstantial evidence. Like playgoers, Nassau's lush sun set had paid early rising natives ?1 a day for places in the tiny courtroom-unless, like the Baron of Trolle, they chose to have their servants bring their own chairs. Evenings the jurors laughed and joked and went to the movies to wave at their families. Between sessions Count Freddy waltzed by himself in the police station, read books on sailing...
...about Strike IV was" that this time almost nobody was mad at John Lewis. Press and public, either tired of the whole mess, or more sympathetic to the miners, or disgusted with Administration ineptitude, raised no cry. Most of the press blamed the Administration. WLB, badly beaten and obviously worn down, okayed the new contract by an 11-to-1 vote. The dissenter: embattled, unshakable Public Member Wayne Lyman Morse, a literal man who insisted on holding the line-even after the President was abandoning the hold-the-line policy. Prophesied Wayne Morse: the whole fight to stabilize wages will...