Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubtless calculated, Beaverbrook, bristling like a new broom, also showed up at the office on Sunday morning, demanded to know who was on the job. Oliver-on-the-spot had a long talk with the Beaver, instantly and deeply impressed the new boss. Thereafter, Beaverbrook rarely turned a wheel without consulting Franks...
...subjecting her husband to "abuse" and telling "terrible lies" about Rossellini ("It seemed they were just trying to kill him"). But what really decided her on quitting, she added, was what happened to her ten-year-old daughter recently on a Minnesota farm. "Some newspapermen dressed themselves as broom sellers to try to get a statement out of her. That was inhuman...
...after 22 years in exile, Georgi Dimitrov went back to Sofia where, in his own phrase, he started to sweep away all opposition with an iron broom. In 1947, Dimitrov's regime hanged Nikola Petkov, courageous democratic leader...
...hours sprucing up the vicinity. Said an amazed G.I. jeep driver, noting that old holes in the road near Nagasaki had been filled in: "I hope this guy comes here more often. This is the first comfortable ride I've had." Schoolchildren swept streets and sidewalks with small brooms hours before the Emperor was scheduled to pass. This practice -; led Japanese Communists and many Americans to speak of Hirohito as hoki san, or "the broom...
...gladden its clients' eyes, Linz has turned out gold and platinum cowboy belt buckles, and jeweled stickpins shaped like oil derricks (one of them for a late-shopping oilman who amused himself while he waited by tossing silver dollars on the floor ahead of the janitor's broom). But such spectacular baubles are only the showy side of a solid, 72-year-old trade that grosses $2,000,000 a year...