Word: walnut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Planless Plan. The meeting began hopefully at 10 o'clock one morning. As the delegates sat down around OPM's long walnut conference table, a sense of urgency filled the room. From the side walls blazed posters: TIME IS SHORT; UNITED WE STAND. From the far end of the long room, a new portrait of Winston Churchill gazed down, stern and steadfast...
Although the whole nation had long had the sense that war was approaching, the country discarded its pre-war preoccupations slowly, regretfully, in the way that travelers across the plains were finally forced to throw away the lovely walnut bureau, the framed motto, the pictures of the graduating class, the heirlooms and excess baggage, when the going got tough. Some of the U.S. preoccupations in the week before war blotted them...
...members have just put up a walnut-&-silver plaque in memory of the father of Minnesota football, Dr. Henry L. Williams, head coach from...
...Senate investigation of the Eastern Seaboard oil shortage (TIME, Sept. 15) ended last week. Instead of proving once & for all whether there really was a shortage or whether Harold Ickes was just seeing ghosts, it left Washington as dazed as a bumpkin watching three walnut shells...
...R.A.F. pennant at its radiator cap, drew away from a Mayfair hotel and whizzed to the Air Ministry in Whitehall. Peter Portal hopped out and literally ran upstairs to his big, high-ceilinged office on the second floor. There he rushes all day-reading reports at his neat walnut desk, drafting concise memos for the War Cabinet, gulping down a chop and an apple for lunch, talking with aides and prodding them with his pipe stem, phoning, planning, dining at one of his clubs, scurrying back to his office and driving himself until small hours...