Word: browing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican-Southern coalition. Then Rayburn's compromise package was introduced. Sam himself stepped out on the floor. Eloquently, somewhat defensively, he appealed for votes for his measure: "Let us not have one sector of Americans known as labor . . . believe that we would press down upon their brow a crown of thorns...
...Where Is Man?" [TIME, April 11] is so wise-so eminently wise (to paraphrase Quiller-Couch on Newman's Idea of a University) -as to deserve being bound by every college student "for a frontlet on his brow and as a talisman on his writing wrist...
...principles and shrewd politics to fashion a career that astonishes the friends and enemies who, only a few years ago, regarded him as dilettante, dreamer, revolutionary and bohemian. Muñoz is a husky, stoop-shouldered man with eloquent dark eyes, a big nose, a cleft chin and furrowed brow. Except when he is amused or surprised, his face has a kind of built-in sad-angry expression...
...girls, who think highly of most of the Union food, thought that too many boys, especially the "High brow" ones, "panned the food too much...
Wiping a carbon-black wrist over a sweaty carbon-black brow, another worker said: "This Marshall aid has got my thanks." A third said: "It's given us a breathing space." A plant official echoed: "Marshall aid saved us from catastrophe." He spoke as simply as if he were saying: "Unless I breathe...