Word: barking
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...tapped in Sumatra, oil to be drilled for in Borneo and Java, tin to be dug in Bangka. Coffee, tea, tobacco, sugar, rice are the more ordinary products; but copra as a basis for facial creams, lizard skins for shoes and handbags, Sumatra wrappers for cigars, cinchona bark for quinine, sandalwood and teakwood, ebony and macassar oil, and even the bare-breasted women of Bali, tourist paradise, do their full share in making this Netherlands overseas a going concern...
...friends could not face the ordeal of seeing each other alone. The split was agony for Taft, who felt only admiration and gratitude for Roosevelt and considered that T. R.'s program had been faithfully carried on. "Theodore can't hear a dog bark," he said sadly, "without wanting to try conclusions with him." When Roosevelt campaigned against Taft in 1912, Taft refuted him point by point in Boston, then went back to his train with tears in his eyes...
...Navy telling its personnel the score. These and others appeared in the U. S. press, incurred no Federal crackdown. But one of them was also broadcast by at least one radio station, Manhattan's WMCA, and last week there was an official fuss, with apparently more bark than bite...
...around him, from whom he derives his power, wish he would puff up, bark and curse in public; wanting that, they have built him up as Poland's Strong, Silent General...
...base outside the labor movement." Rare were such old battlecries as "proletarian," "class-consciousness." Delegates hurried nervously through their mainly autobiographical speeches, subsided meekly on the chairman's time-signal, as polite fellow delegates rose politely to comment. From Communists, as such, came not a sheepdog's bark...