Word: blanket
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Riding back to London on the train from Dover, Eleanor Roosevelt knitted busily on a blue and white baby blanket, explaining to reporters that it should have been finished long ago. An English girl reporter, exhausted from the day's trip, finally asked the First Lady if she ever relaxed, slept late, or forgot her obligations. "Not since I can remember," said Eleanor Roosevelt...
...dead of night, Jailer G. F. Dabbs answered a knock at his door. A mob of men threw a blanket over his head, took away his keys, locked him in a cell. In a caravan of automobiles, the men carried the Negro boys away into the night. When the sun came up, deputies found their bodies hanging from the trestle...
...question had peeled the blanket of official silence off a complex and dangerous problem. Almost everyone in Britain had heard at least one eyewitness story such...
Director Deeter sat down and wrote to President Roosevelt, characterizing Hedgerow as "a work of national importance" and requesting a blanket exemption for his group. The President turned the letter over to the Adjutant General's office, which curtly told Deeter that nobody could change the will of Congress...
...number of stations, beamed to Axis and neutral nations, are said to have innocently hired foreign-language announcers who had slyly angled scripts into Axis meanings. Also, private operators like to beam their stations to the most thickly populated areas, while the OWI wants to spread a worldwide blanket evenly. Emergency funds should cover leasing of the 14 existing stations. Another need: Official propaganda directives. But OWI brains are seething with a ferment of heady plans...