Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...54th Battalion saved the lives of more than 175 soldiers trapped on a bombed and burning LST by erecting a bridge of pontoons to another ship. On another day they rescued a fleet of landing craft which was being pounded to pieces in the surf. Bulldozer operators steered their caterpillar machines into the waves and pushed the boats out into deeper, quieter water...
...years back. Sally is sweet, self-dramatizing, off love since it scorched her a week ago Tuesday. Because it is raining and he is tired and has no hotel room, Bill spends Friday night on the living-room couch. He stays Saturday night too. By Sunday morning the caterpillar of sex has become the butterfly of love...
Last week one of the big Government-building cafeterias (the Bureau of Printing & Engraving) was denounced as "horribly unhealthy." Specific gripes in the complaint of the United Federal Workers of America (C.I.O.): a mouse in the soup container, worms cooked in greens, a caterpillar in the gingerbread, chewing gum on a pie plate, fish scales in the soup, improperly washed china...
...Last Effort. Out of the caterpillar of war, through the cocoon of Versailles, was hatched that beautiful butterfly, the League of Nations. Ardent apologists for the League-which still exists in form and largely in exile-insist that its prime purpose was not to stop wars once they had reached or passed the boiling point, but rather to promote international cooperation. "A place for talk" is the way League-loving Sir John Fischer Williams describes...
...night long the caterpillar tractors have towed their trailers over the valleys and plateaus between Attu's high peaks. Today 125 of our dead are lined up for burial in the Little Falls Cemetery (named for a nearby waterfall) near Massacre Bay - one of our two graveyards on Attu...