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Committee: "It knocks budget plans askew." He thought the whole, interrelated problem would have to be tackled anew. Many thoughtful Republicans agreed with him-but not Minnesota's Harold Knutson, chairman of Ways & Means, who was driving his committee with a bull whip...
Enter the Head Man. There was a stir in the back of the hall and Molotov bustled in with his brisk, bobbing swagger. His face was pink with anxiety and his tie (for once) was askew. He snapped his finger to attract the chair's attention, and Bidault wearily said: "The Soviet delegation has an observation to make." A reporter muttered: "Hold your hats, boys, here we go again...
...There is something askew in a society in which vast numbers of citizens can be organized to create a horror like The Bomb without even knowing they are doing...
Antwerp was taken from the Germans virtually intact. But now almost half the city's buildings have vanished in rubble and dust. Most of those that still stand are askew on their foundations, with walls leaning and cracked. In all the city there is not a window pane left; boards cover the gaping apertures of buildings where people still live and work...
Field's blockbuster is a skit sharply satirizing U.S.-British relations, in which Field plays a cocky, cap-askew, cigar-in-mouth, hands-in-pocket, U.S. lieutenant. His stooge, who portrays a full colonel, urges him to try to understand the English better and show more cooperation. The house comes down when the C.O. suggests to Field: "You might even give the British an occasional salute." Aghast, Field mutters: "Ah, no, Colonel, not that...