Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...TIME'S account described the first week of mass daylight raids in mid-September, when Londoners' reactions showed they were not yet bomb-hardened. They did undoubtedly harden, and they naturally grew cockier when mass daylight raids stopped after the British defense had rung up high daily scores in planes shot down. Far from cocky is the frank recital below of a man whose home...
...British Royal Family, who always observe Christmas with great simplicity - the royal Princesses have never had a Christmas tree and did not have one last week-rusticated quietly at a place kept rigidly secret lest Nazi airmen bomb George VI while the King was reading his scheduled Christmas broadcast. This year British Broadcasting Corp. titled its annual program Christmas Under Fire, scheduled Welsh workers singing in a factory, an Army choir in the Holy Land and a broadcast from an R. A. F. patrol plane over the Channel-especially topical because many Britons last week were saying "It would...
...Mecca (TIME, Nov. 18), has given a tidy ?100,000 ($400,000) for a mosque, promised them a site in London for it. In Libya when a force of Australians holed up a body of Italians at the oasis of Jarabub, the R. A. F. knew better than to bomb it. Jarabub has several holy Moslem buildings and the British did not intend to injure the monuments of Islam...
Aram (rhymes with a bomb) Garoghlanian (pronounced "Gar, pause, oghlan, slight pause, ian") is the narrator, for William Saroyan, of 14 semi-autobiographical semi-stories of an Armenian childhood in Fresno, Calif. They are, in their modest way, the best writing William Saroyan has done. But like all Saroyan's work, they are likable or loathsome, depending on the reader's taste...
Halted last fortnight in Mexico City after Germans threatened to bomb the theatre was the showing of the anti-Nazi film Pastor Hall (TIME, Aug. 12). It freely parallels Pastor Niemoller's career in op position, shows a small town Lutheran parson learning what the new Nazi gospel means, suffering in a concentration camp, escaping for a final sermon to his flock before being shot. Pastor Hall, says Dr. Leiper, "understates, not overstates" the terror...