Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...below zero when the men-41 specially trained Canadians, one British and five American observers-clambered up the shining aluminum sides of their 4½-ton vehicles and dropped through topside hatches into 6 ft.-by-5 ft. cabins. Young (33), British-born Lieut. Colonel Patrick Douglas Baird, 6 ft. 7 in. from the peak of his blue parka to the soles of his mukluk boots, stood waist-high and erect in the hatch of the No. 1 "snow" as it moved ponderously out of line, swung left, headed down the street. The other vehicles, each tugging two supply-laden...
Lauritz Melchior, Metropolitan Opera tenor, got back from Denmark with a brand-new Commander of the Cross of Danneborg decoration and a story about King Christian's escape hatch (never used). When he was a palace prisoner of the Germans, the King had a secret tunnel built from the palace to the rear of the royal washerwomen's dormitory, at the edge of the grounds...
Labor did not like the Senator's co-authorship of the B2H1 (Burton-Ball-Hatch) industrial disputes bill. But the nation's press, in general, warmly applauded...
...Illinois' "Curly" Brooks and Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry almost succeeded in delaying Senate action until mid-November. They were joined, surprisingly, by Minnesota's Republican Joseph Hurst Ball. The vote against delaying (52 to 31) was too close for Administration comfort. It found B2H2 (Ball, Burton, Hatch, Hill) split for the first time on an international issue, with Ohio's Harold Burton in Senator Ball's corner...
Said New Mexico's Senator Carl Hatch, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee : "I think the President was speaking of not retaining territory for selfish gain. Any Pacific area we keep will be for defense purposes only and is likely to be almost entirely worthless for any other purpose...