Word: beaverisms
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...hour workday, General Mohammed Naguib, Egypt's reluctant strong man, and his eager-beaver officers gathered around a radio in Abbas-sia barracks. They tuned in to hear their hand-picked Premier, Aly Maher, report to the nation. When the Premier had finished, the officers were disappointed and mad. Why hadn't Aly spelled out his proposed social and economic reforms instead of merely saying that reforms were on the way? The Premier had been long on generalities, short on specifics. His only hard & fast promise was a pledge to lift press censorship. To a country tingling...
...preflight check. In their orange baseball caps, the crews themselves glistened dully, too. Most of them were reserves, and like their planes they were ten years older than in the glamour days of World War II. There was little of the "tiger" (Korea equivalent for "eager beaver") about them. They were cool, experienced, careful, sometimes sardonic. They liked to call themselves the "Christmas help," and they liked to point out that the average B-29 in the outfit was carrying the fathers of ten children...
...tons of ore yearly from taconites, and its ultimate goal is 10 million tons. To achieve it, Reserve plans to spend $260 million. It is building two new towns for 5,000 workers, a 40-mile railway to haul taconite from Babbitt, Minn, to the bigger plant at Beaver Bay. It is linking two Lake Superior islands by breakwaters to handle the loading of finished...
...ever gets rolling again, the chances are that the most formidable Red-held mountains will have to be bypassed and isolated. Storming them would be bloody and purposeless. On cold, clear nights, you can hear the beaver-busy Communists digging at the frozen earth from end to end of the front...
...London's Tate Gallery, the public had a chance to see the second portrait done by British Landscape Painter Graham Sutherland: a study of walnut-faced Publisher Lord Beaverbrook in a grimly pleasant mood. The Beaver agreed to sit for the portrait, a 72nd birthday present from his staff last year, after he saw and admired Sutherland's first attempt at portraiture: a haggard, cynical Somerset Maugham...