Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur Rodzinski, brush-haired, Dalmatian-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, played conventional Bach and Beethoven for the opening concert of the orchestra's 103rd season in Carnegie Hall, then gave convention the boot by playing an encore-George Gershwin's jazzy / Got Rhythm. Although the first Philharmonic encore in many years brought down the house, it struck the New York Times's staid music critic, Olin Downes, as "an unwise impulse...
Something for Justice. When Hatch continued to prod, Waxey pounded the table, glared at the Senator and began to ask questions himself. Senator Hatch tried to brush them aside. Waxey shouted: "Don't give me no deviated answers...
Naturally, there's no definite proof that the Founder ever did brush up against it, but the facts indicate that he probably did. The wood was discovered in 1934 during the reconstruction of the Old Library of Emmanuel into an additional dining hall. Workmen on the job were stripping away the south wall when they hit into a massive oak panel, hidden by the centuries and nine inches of plaster and brick...
Once more the Reds beat the drums in front of East Prussia. From the banks of the narrow Scheschuppa River on the border, a Red Fleet correspondent wrote: "Before us stretches Germany. Beyond this insignificant river is a steep bank, then fields with clover, brush, clumps of trees surrounded by wire and trenches, big barns with tile roofs, the red and pastel-colored roofs of houses. . . . We know that the earth beyond the Scheschuppa River will take a lot of our blood, but we know that without this blood humanity can never find peace...
Food Machinery Corp. will also build in its ten plants, scattered from California to Florida: 1) a dehydrating haymaker-that cuts hay and rolls it so that all moisture is squeezed out; 2) a new fast-moving sprayer for orchards; 3) a potato-harvesting machine that will dig, brush, grade and box potatoes in the field...