Word: busyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To the rose garden of the White House last week a delegation of Greeks, thankful for U.S. aid to their country, came bearing gifts-an ancient urn, a native rug inscribed to XAPPT Z. TPOTMAN. The President was also in a mood of goodwill and generosity. He was busy last...
While he waited for company from Capitol Hill, the President put in a busy week, full of official comings & goings. Winston Churchill arrived for the full brandy-and-cigar treatment at a formal presidential dinner in Blair House (see The Nation). There was a little dinner for outgoing Secretary of...
Twenty-four hours after Ava Miller's story appeared in the Times, a Bellevue Hospital colleague handed the clipping to Dr. Jacob Remler, a prison-ward psychiatrist. If it was about a patient, said Dr. Remler, he didn't want to bother; he was too busy. No, no...
* In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the man with the Muckrake is too busy raking the "dust of the floor" to look up when offered a celestial crown.
Two cops found him busy over a bowl of corn flakes and milk in a house in the Roxbury section of Boston; some kids had come upon him wandering about the street, and had taken him home. One of the cops looked over the child in the tattered dresses and...