Word: thread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thread is used for the tiny Boston El carlines down Massachusetts Avenue, while fresh seaweed, procured every two weeks, makes the tiny trees which, dot the Yard and nearby streets...
...hard on bee breeders, who can never be sure that an interloper male has not outdistanced more desirable suitors. Bee men tried putting a nubile queen in a large tent with a retinue of drones. Both sexes just tried to get out. They even tethered a queen with a thread, in the hope that she would fly round & round, pursued by drones, until she was in the mating mood. This did not work either. Apparently bees will mate only when flying freely...
...plump Empress Dowager Sadako of Japan, who used to be known as "the Mother of God," became a working woman of a sort. Her job, the first of her life: president of the Japan Silk Thread Association...
...Ames Williams made his reputation as a writer of brawny short stories, many of which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Like good hybrid corn, his yield has increased until it has overflowed into novels-novels that get bigger as Williams gets deeper into the American past. In Thread of Scarlet, he covered Nantucket Island during the War of 1812, in a mere 374 pages. Come Spring, a Revolutionary War novel, ran to 866 pages. His latest, House Divided, sprawls over fifteen hundred pages and four years of Confederate history...
...along with other financial experts. Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, was vacationing in the south of France. Set in rapid motion by the crisis, he "dipped down" in Britain for a quick check with Whitehall and the Bank of England's headquarters in Thread-needle Street, arrived in the U.S. unshaven and with his old school tie (Eton's black with narrow light blue stripes) holding up his pants (see cut). Not even the Old Etonian belt could disguise the fact that this flurried arrival departed from the tradition of the British Treasury...