Word: casts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's Joseph Stalin had his usual amazing political luck: he ran for city deputy of 1) Tiflis, 2) Frunze, 3) Alma Ata, got every last vote cast...
...almost as strange as his beginning. At 46, Hubard became obsessed with the notion that Houdon's marble bust of George Washington ought to be cast in bronze. He built his own foundry, spent seven years and all his savings to make six reproductions of the bust. At the start of the Civil War he tried to recoup his losses by turning his foundry into a Confederate arsenal. He began experimenting with explosives and blew himself...
...know of publishers, honorable men, who cast out of their shop patently dishonest advertising, yet their front pages are a mass of dishonest eight-column streamers nearly every day. Some papers feel the compulsion to propagate their owner's social, political and economic ideas in their news columns, unaware that freedom should include freedom of news from color and distortion...
Unnoticed by Mr. Bingham, who was busy vetoing rule modifications, General Eisenhower, cast at least one ray of light on a clouded situation laght night. "I am not available," he parried to reporters after they had thrust. Ox DaGrosa could not be reached...
Napoleon's foolhardy bravery is an old story to most schoolboys. "Forward, comrades!" cried the Little Corporal at the battle of Montereau. "The cannon ball that will hit me has not been cast...