Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tombstones in wood, but he got angry when asked to inscribe "Safe in Heaven" over the tomb of the children's pet jackrabbit. Children goggled and thrilled when Uncle Jimbilly casually remarked that he would cut off their ears, skin them alive and nail their skins to the barn door...
Crerar's Mind. Last Aug. 7, the eve of the Canadians' push on Falaise, in a sunlight-flooded barn, correspondents in France took the measure of Henry Crerar as a soldier. Wearing freshly shined boots and talking like a military-school professor, Crerar gave them a briefing which turned out to be a brilliant, complex, minutely detailed analysis of the coming operation. Said Crerar: "Tomorrow . . . may be another historic day in the military annals of Canada." The newsmen agreed that his briefing was an extraordinary performance. "That man," said one, "has a department store mind on a Napoleonic...
...GOOD RED BARN PAINT...
President Schram's warning closed the barn door a little late: rumors had already touched off a buying spree in low-priced auto shares. Through the grapevine from Detroit poured an endless cackle of tips and gossip as the auto industry jockeyed for postwar position. Biggest whoppers from the gossip mill last week concerned the future of the four Fisher brothers (TIME, Aug. 14). The dope had it that the Fishers were going to: 1) buy aging Henry Ford's titanic empire; or 2) buy control of three or four smaller companies and merge these into one automaker...
This fall the house and barn will be wired for electricity. Then the Walls will get rid of the smelly kerosene lamps, and out of her egg money Carolyne will buy an electric refrigerator-if she can find one. Joe might put a small radio in the barn so that he can hear music and news programs while he milks. Eventually the Walls will buy an electric washing machine, and a tractor to spell the mules...