Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once dragged that he would live to be no was rapidly failing. By special dispensation he was no longer forced to make his bed or sweep his room, and he had given up his two daily 30-minute strolls in the prison yard. Though the prison director allowed him a radio, Petain seldom turned it on. But he still clung to his firm resolve to let posterity judge him on his record. The last paragraph in his will explained why he had never written his memoirs. Wrote Petain (according to his lawyer): "I would have had to praise myself...
...could seldom bring myself to say it. A woman and a politician must say that word often, and mean it-or else." But if he had any regrets Jimmy kept them to himself. Said he: "I have carried youth right up to the fifty-yard mark. I had mine and made the most...
...Scotland Yard was hunting an unnamed "vampire maniac" who had drunk the blood of six victims and then destroyed their bodies. (U.S. papers, which reported Haigh had confessed the killings, said he had sucked his victims' blood "through lemonade straws...
British readers, who are used to the journalistic trick of printing two stories to get around the English law, got the point. So did Scotland Yard. It warned the Mirror and other London editors to watch what they were saying. Next day the Mirror took another chance; it told readers that the "vampire killer" -not identified-had been caught...
...laid off, there was one bright spot. The U.S. Air Force awarded contracts for $20 million worth of woolen cloth. To get the business, mills had slashed their bids close to cost, in some cases below it. The catch was that the prices, as much as $1.25 a yard lower than those on civilian goods, were sure to increase the demand of retailers for cheaper goods...