Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Facts are facts - we cannot deny that. But the fact that there is one rotten apple in the barrel should not be sufficient cause to condemn all. W. M. KRIEGER Managing Director National Selected Morticians Chicago...
Britain's Archibald Mackenzie let Lomakin have the other barrel. "[He] complains of a slanderous campaign . . . against the Soviet Union. Does he read his own newspapers? Do the Soviet papers dispense soothing syrups? If Hearst is wrong, the New York Times or the Washington Post or someone else will correct it. But who corrects Pravda?" Jacob Lomakin said nothing. For Pravda and Lomakin take orders from the same boss...
...meets are pointing towards the role we will play in the Dartmouth Winter Carnival," said Manager Bob Barrel," and they will also provide the basis on which Coach Halsey picks the eight-man team which will participate in the Carnival...
...ever get him over a barrel," said Big Jake Kramer, "I'll beat him fifty straight matches without easing off." But things didn't work that way. Jake got the jitters in his pro tennis debut at Madison Square Garden, and lost badly to Pro Champ Bobby Riggs (TIME, Jan. 5). In Pittsburgh, Jake caught a cold, and lost again to Bobby. Then Jake got back some of his confidence by winning match No. 3 in Cleveland. Last week, after their tenth match in the tenth city on their U.S. tour, Jake was beginning to look better. Bobby...
Shortly after Dunkirk, as a bright Beaverboy of 27, Mike Foot helped write Guilty Men, an indictment of the Chamberlain government (TIME, Sept. 30, 1940). The Beaver pretended not to notice. But when Foot gave the Tories the other barrel in The Trial of Mussolini, Beaverbrook dropped him as editor. Since mid-1944, Foot has done his sharpshooting from his column in the Laborite Daily Herald. ("The central problem of Toryism remains the same: how to get the poor to vote for the rich man's cause...