Word: elasticized
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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After over 4½ years of writing his breezy, brassy columns, Billy Rose this week called it quits. In his farewell, Rose wrote: "I may feel differently about it one of these days, but as of this writing-propped up in bed and with a magnum of morphine sloshing around...
Down below, guards rolled the living gunman over, jerked roughly at his coat, fumbled through his pockets, pulled out his shirt and carefully snapped the elastic band of his underwear to be certain it was not hooked to a hidden bomb mechanism. They demanded his name. He whispered: "Oscar Collazo...
"Impossible? The Soviets are much more elastic than other powers; they can go backwards elastically too. After all, they did it during the blockade."
The U.S. beachhead perimeter was taking on the likeness of a tough elastic barrier which yielded locally under pressure but quickly snapped back to upset the invaders. Said one commander: "If we had four new divisions this afternoon we could sweep straight through the enemy."
Emergency Supplies. In San Jose, Calif., Mrs. Olga Muse filed suit against her ex-husband Joseph to recover 14 cans of fish, one elastic stocking, five boots, one crystal ball.