Word: browed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billowing fire raced through tall stands of spruce, pine, oak and birch, cut westward across the brow of thickly timbered Mackenzie Mountain until it reached the little fishing hamlet of Pleasant Bay. Some of the 250 villagers escaped along famed Cabot Trail. Fishing boats, summoned before communications were cut, saved the rest. But Pleasant Bay's homes and shops, a church and hospital were ashes...
News that terminal leave bonds can be cashed by September 1 may raise an itch on the palm of the veteran, but something more like a furrow on the brow of the professorial economist. Two members of the Economics Department here saw the government move yesterday as another round in the inflation spiral...
...reporter asked if she enjoyed reading as much as music. "Oh yes," said Eva. And did she have any favorites? "Why do people ask me questions like that? I like everything I read." But surely she must have some favorites. "Well," said Eva, her brow furrowed in agonized thought, "Plutarch." "He's an ancient writer," she added hastily...
...loyal but fidgety Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.: "Henry works himself up. ... I'll have to rub his brow and he'll be all right...
...Cincinnati's Crosley Field last week, Pitcher Schoolboy Rowe, a lantern-jawed giant of a man, was in trouble. He glanced around, mopped his brow with his fingers. Two Cincinnati players were on base, and a dangerous man was stepping up to bat. Schoolboy fired the ball in toward the plate...