Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark road, toward the rear. As we turned into the field where we would bivouac, the bearded sergeant said: "Well, it usually ends like this." He meant, not that it usually ended in retirement, but that any ending is an anticlimax for men who have survived the near brush of death...
Artur Rodzinski, genial, brush-headed conductor of the New York Philharmonic promised R.A.F. Wing Commander John Wooldridge last April one performance of Wooldridge's symphonic poem "Constellations" for every five German planes he shot down. Last week 33-year-old Wooldridge bagged his fifth, and the R.A.F. promised him leave to go to Manhattan. Cabled Conductor Rodzinski: HAVE SCHEDULED THREE PERFORMANCES "CONSTELLATIONS...
Buster. In Brookline, Mass., the late Lawyer Woodbury Rand left $40,000 to his pet alley-cat Buster. To his housekeeper he left Buster's comb, brush, harness and an extra $40,000 to provide for the cat's additional comfort. To nine outraged relatives he left nothing. Reason: ". . . their contemptuous attitude and cruelty...
...brush country back of Port Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, where reeds grow shoulder high, terror stalked last week. Ferocious, fearless man-eating lions were eating more & more...
...Churchill did not even brush the nub of the problem: joint U.S.-British economic pressure. Britain needs Argentine beef, which she does not believe the U.S. could replace. She wants to keep her Argentine investments, the most important foreign holdings she has left. Valuing Argentina as a trade partner, Britain is not eager to see her dragged into, the U.S. orbit. If Britain imposes economic sanctions on Argentina at U.S. request, it will be with growling reluctance. Said the Economist: "Gain must be counted against loss. And in this case there would be enormous loss for a very questionable gain...