Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Into the basket on Smith's desk, on a typical day, may pop any number of neat typewritten notes signed F. D. R.-each meaning a new chore. For in wartime Washington, with its myriads of new officials, its changing pattern of authority, its good spots and bad, Smith & Coy are the doers on whom the President relies...
They slugged with a new pattern. Now, instead of dispersing each night over a vast area, they dropped almost all their eggs into one industrial basket. And now they came in repeated raids on the same target, re-Coventrizing their Coventries...
Across from the police station was Le Panier Fleuri (The Flower Basket), "the neighborhood bordel run by Madame Mariette." The other corner was occupied by a laundry "which employed three hardworking girls and also served as a clandestin. That is to say, men who found it banal to patronize the orthodox establishment could, if they were known...
...months, ideas and plans for such a manpower mobilization had floated across the White House desk, to sink out of sight in the President's "dead basket." The clear-cut necessity for such a mobilization had been sidetracked by the usual scramble of power politics-and by the President's reluctance to set in motion such an upheaval. Then a fortnight ago four White House advisers (Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas, Budget Director Harold Smith, and Brain-Trusters Judge Samuel I. Rosenman and Anna Rosenberg) met in secret sessions, emerged with a final plan. Last week...
Woddy Grimshaw of the Dean outfit did not miss more than five shots all evening as he stood under the Crimson basket and piled up 28 points to lead his team's attack. Frank Bixler was Coach Al McCoy's highest scorer with 23 points...