Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...True. In Los Angeles, a brush manufacturer, by way of publicity, brought out a true toothbrush...
Exit Poles. The Finns, as near-enemies, had thus been given the coldest of brush-offs. Now up stepped the Poles, as near-allies, to get the warmest of brush-offs. Polish Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk had been given the full red-carpet treatment. As he prepared to leave Washington he went with the warmest of goodbyes from Franklin Roosevelt and a qualified promise-not, of course, of any American aid to the Poles in their boundary quarrel with Russia. But Franklin Roosevelt did promise that all possible military aid would be rushed to the Polish underground. This, of course, would...
...fuzzy ends of these branches (see cut) gave penicillium its name, which comes from the Latin penicillus, meaning "brush" (forerunner of the modern pencil...
...most adventurous U.S. painting contractor bagged a new job last week. Vat-shaped (200 lb., 5 ft. 3 in.) Nathan Schriber flew from Denver to Kansas City to boss a $310,000 job. The job: to seal every crack in a big new Sunflower Ordnance Plant building, to brush the walls with a fire-and water-resisting paint. The job was important; the building will house the manufacture of a highly explosive and highly secret new gunpowder, and the structure must be tight against fires and floodings (from the sprinkler system...
Killed in Action. Klaus Doenitz, eldest son of Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, in a brush between a British destroyer and a Nazi torpedo boat. The Admiral's youngest son, U-boat Lieut. Peter Doenitz, was reported killed in March...