Word: afresh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Adams sent back the Deficiency bill, the House was relaxed, approved it swiftly. Leaders tried to soothe the session's accumulated seven-months bitterness. In the House they succeeded, in the Senate a diehard New Dealer, patent-leather-haired Claude Pepper of Florida, re-opened and salted afresh all the old wounds with a last-minute castigation of the anti-Administration "alliance." In words so cutting they skirted the edge of Senate rules he scourged the Republocrats for "putting personal grudge and party feeling above the welfare and safety of the American people" because "they hate Roosevelt...
...Hamburg 20 years ago. Aryan Rose Hoga was a maid in his house. When post-War inflation in Germany was about to wipe out thrifty Rose's savings, Herr Hecksher converted her marks into dollars, advised her to go to the U.S. So Rose Hoga started life afresh as a cook in Milwaukee, again saved her money...
...Princeton, and Albert Einstein, at the nearby Institute for Advanced Study. At the New School for Social Research in Manhattan is a "University in Exile," whose entire faculty consists of European notables. But it is as students, not teachers, that many refugees have found a chance to begin life afresh in U. S. colleges,* public and private schools...
...year-old woman consulted Dr. Groves because she had broken the top of her thighbone a year before and it had not united. To nail the knob back on the patient's thighbone, Dr. Groves needed a solid, rodlike bone. He remembered that stags' antlers, which sprout afresh every year, are homogeneous, have no marrow cavity. So he ordered a branch of antlers, carved a bone peg three inches long, three-eighths of an inch wide, and nailed the head back onto her long thighbone. "A year later [the patient] could walk so well that it was impossible...
Still No Map. Believing the fighting was over, some correspondents left the battle area. Almost at once Moscow charged that the Japanese had advanced afresh beyond the line they had agreed to hold. Only a few yards of blasted hummocks lay between the angry forces on Changkufeng Hill. Moscow claimed that the Japanese officers on the spot had refused to sign even a provisional map until they received further orders from Tokyo. Japanese papers fed the public with whoppers about how "our soldiers have been generously feeding the starving Soviet troops," charged that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had been...