Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acre farm, he thought he was settled for life; the farthest he and wife Josepha ever got from their farm was nearby Pinsk. But during World War II the Olechnys, like millions of others who had thought they were settled for life, started wandering. They covered more ground than most...
...days, guided by Indians, they pushed into the jungle. In some places the growth was so thick "that without a watch you would mistake midday for daybreak or sunset." Some days, cutting a trail with machetes, the party progressed as little as two miles. Boggy ground made walking hazardous. Food grew scarce, and dysentery developed. Once a 20-foot python knocked down a soldier. Men who fell ill returned to Moyobamba...
Hatchetman Westbrook Pegler, already on record as "anti-democratic," set his readers straight on another point: "I should like to release those delegates who have been loyal to me on the ground that I was not anti-union but only anti-communist and anti-racketeer . . . Yes, I am now anti-union...
...southern California is also the stamping ground of one of the world's best and most influential moderns-Los Angeles Architect Richard Joseph Neutra The broad, glassy brows of Neutra's buildings (and those of such onetime Neutra apprentices as Gregory Ain, Raphael bonano and Harwell Harris) line the Pacific shore, nestle in the canyons and beam down from a hundred hilltops. After 23 years in the neighborhood, 57-year-old Vienna-born Richard Neutra has gone a long way toward making the place one of the hotbeds of the U.S. modern...
Male Animal. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Dorothy Bemis Radford won a divorce on the ground that her husband would not allow her to sit on his lap to watch television. Mrs. Joyce Holdridge sued for divorce, charging that every time she was near her husband she would "break out in a rash from head...