Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...close to French Indo-China last week that the thought of it no longer caused alarm. Japan, self-appointed guardian of "Greater East Asia," had left no doubt that she intended to fall upon the fat prey to the south, but two factors caused her to hold her hand: uncertainty regarding the outcome of Hitler's war in Europe, and the presence of the U. S. Navy in the Pacific. The risk of becoming involved both in China and French Indo-China before Britain was definitely on her back, plus the probability of a complete U. S. embargo...
There were even a few laughs. Joke of the week: "Hug the wall," said a man when the bombs began to fall. Said a second man: "I'm practically a mural...
...commonplace last week for London fire fighters to go right on with their work in burning buildings while the next Nazi load of incendiary bombs was being brought up at full throttle. Only when these actually began to fall did firemen take cover, not in air-raid shelters but simply by jumping for the nearest doorway or partial shelter. One elderly woman, so paralyzed by fear that she was unable to go to a shelter, found herself watching the firemen, began brewing them a bucket...
Droll is the boisterous, pratt-fall comedy of Guernsey-bosomed, muskellunge-mouthed Martha Raye; hilarious the portrayals of Concho, the Lone Rider's Indian chum, by flap-eared, long-nosed Bert Gordon (Radio's "Mad Russian"), whose accent is as thick as borsch with sour cream. Filling in for Ruby Keeler, who left the company in Chicago when ex-Husband Jolson's ad-libbing got in her hair, neatly turned Eunice Healey steps with precision through a show-stopping...
...delegates threshed some of their differences thin, but left most for later meetings to handle. With thinkers' caution they decided to spend the next two academic years preparing statements of their agreement, to meet again in the fall of 1941 and 1942 to work on their great project: an inclusive system of thought for civilized man. Said the conference: "The departmentalization of human knowledge has been proceeding for more than a century; its integration, with the most valiant efforts, will take more than a meeting of three days...