Word: boils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boil thou first i' th' charmed...
With the Crimson boil and bake...
...easygoing start, the 55th triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church warmed up to a lively boil. In Philadelphia last week the subject in the 150-man House of Bishops was Divorce. In the 700-man* House of Deputies it was Union. The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, had come from England to watch the proceedings. Presiding over the House of Bishops was the Episcopal Church's nearest equivalent (it was not very near) to the Primate of All England: the Most Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Church since...
...U.S.S. Reluctant the young cargo officer named Roberts was the only man aboard who still had his heart in the war. But after 2½ years in the Navy, Roberts' heart was sore as a boil. Instead of getting on a can or a carrier or a battlewagon, he had been left on the Reluctant, whose regular run was "from Tedium to Apathy and back." Roberts' defense against frustration and boredom was to work as hard and think as little as possible...
...really made the pots boil was not acting like a candidate at all. He was Fiorello LaGuardia and he was fuming over a foaming glass of beer in Czechoslovakia (see FOREIGN NEWS). But last week dumpy Butch LaGuardia, who has been wont to characterize New York City's leading Democrats as "those political bums," bobbed up in the middle of a meaty Democratic stew. No Democrat at all (he is a member of the American Labor Party), he was suddenly a darling of the Democratic bigwigs and a leading contender for their U.S. Senate nomination...