Word: bracingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marched back to the Pentagon, leaving Anna Rosenberg to answer questions and present the details. Mrs. Rosenberg promptly proved that she was a powerhouse of both information and energy. For two hours she reeled off a staggering list of statistics, carried on a discussion of policy, and kept a brace or more of brigadier generals hopping up & down to supply her with papers...
...against Communist imperialism by adjusting its economy to the realities of the U.S. war-production program. The Latin countries' first tasks, he said, would be to tighten their belts, prepare for rationing of U.S. exports, increase their own production of strategic materials for sale at controlled prices, and brace themselves for the hardships of economic mobilization...
...light. Its doctor was wielding another tongue 'depressor and checking off teeth on the sheet. There was a long line waiting in front of the chair; the doctor was sweating by the time I got to it. He looked in my mouth. "Take that out." I have a wire brace fixed on my lower teeth. "Can't" I said. The doctor shrugged his shoulders and picked up my form. I watched him cross out seven lower teeth. "Next man," said the doctor, as he wrote something on the sheet. I looked at it as I moved to Station Five. "Fixed...
COMPLETE POEMS (676 pp.) - Carl Sandburg-Harcourt, Brace...
SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT (200 pp.]-George Orwell - Harcourt, Brace...