Word: checkered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S stream-of-unconsciousness checker, three years. When Ulysses was published in 1922, TIME, not yet born, said nothing. In Vol. I No. I (March 3, 1923), TIME said...
Freshmen will get a chance between new and April vacation to sample House food. Tickets for the free meals are available at the checker's desk in the Union at the following hours...
Every week, U.S. hams casually talk to hams behind the Iron Curtain. Usually the topics discussed are politically innocuous: the weather, detailed descriptions of radio equipment, sometimes the moves in a chess or checker game. Even in presidential years, hams avoid politics. Their mutual passion for radio appears to level most cultural, racial, political and religious differences...
Boasting two strong lines and several good defense men, the Crimson players may repeat their work over Newton High and the Brown freshmen. They racked up scores of 7 to 1 and 7 to 4 respectively. But Captain Dusty Burke, the team's best checker, will be out tomorrow with a broken collar bone...
...chomping Jack Reese wore his hat on the job, worked 16 hours a day trimming off Continental's fat (he cut costs $75,000 a month), and drumming up new business. In three months he lined up $5,000,000 worth of engine business from J. I. Case, Checker Cab, Sears, Roebuck and others. By the time war orders came in, he had Continental in such tiptop shape that it turned out $796 million worth of aircraft and truck engines...