Word: stampeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The brown, heavily stamped parcels also went behind the Iron Curtain, to Czechoslovakia and Poland, where the Communist authorities officially declared that such gifts from America were unnecessary, and had so intimidated their recipients that many sent the parcels back unopened. Some 66,000 of the parcels went to Austria...
Bryan pointed out that in normal years people feel no need to pay higher taxes for improvements in reservoir space. Thus, though cities expand, and therby use more water, the facilities remain the same. However, when a drought appears, the need for more funds is stamped on the taxpayers by...
The eye-opening process began when his board started interviewing candidates for the superintendency. Most of the candidates, he found, were "more interested in soap, towels, bathrooms, ventilation, and machines for waxing floors than they were in basic subjects." When they did speak about education, "they were all stamped out...
Slight, dark-haired Mrs. Juanita S. Tucker is postmistress in the tiny hamlet of Christmas, Florida. Each Christmas for the past 15 years, thousands of letters came for postmarking and she lovingly stamped each with a small green Christmas tree cachet and the legend "Glory to God in the Highest...
Using a minimum of tools, he succeeded. As Jean Cassou, curator of Paris' Musée d'Art Moderne put it, Léger became "the greatest primitive of our modern industrial age." A retrospective show which Cassou's museum was staging last week proved the point...