Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Senate committee figured that 22 of the Navy's 143 new combat vessels will cost at least $372,750,000. Buried in one of the naval bills which Congress passed last week was authority (but not money) for the Navy to fortify Guam, in Japan's Pacific backyard. Eventual cost: anywhere from $80,000,000 to $200,000,000, depending upon how safe the Navy wants Guam...
...poorest peon knew that a fifth column was on the march south of the Rio Grande. They also knew that its immediate object was not to prepare Mexico for the advent of Adolf Hitler but to keep Uncle Sam out of Europe by keeping him busy in his own backyard...
...Well-favored Helenans, whose civic vigor TIME salutes, misconstrued the intended meaning of "eke out." Its irony, TIME supposed, was as plain as Helena's backyard Mt. Ascension and Mt. Helena. Whether second richest U. S. city or not is something for Helena to fight out with such claimants as Winston-Salem, N. C., Pasadena, Calif., Greenwich, Conn., Dallas, Texas, Washington...
...doors was a bundle of newspapers, a rope and a hammer, so arranged that if anyone entered without Miss Claudius' permission (never granted), the hammer would fall on the intruder's head. In the warm months, as soon as Miss Claudius got up, she repaired to her backyard, where she kept an old piano, weathering but still tuneful in the open air. She would play her piano, and sing to the birds. When the neighbors objected, Miss Claudius said: "The birds are up, why can't you get up?" Inside she had another piano, which she played...