Word: caustically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well then, we're wasting our money. A small, tough shield in front, big reserves behind, which are organized-properly organized-and the war is won. Mind you, not by the active forces you keep up in peacetime, but by the nation in arms behind the shield. . ." Through caustic, he is also confident. "My view," he says, "is that the danger of premeditated-the word is important-war has been pushed back, largely due to American money and sacrifices made by the people of Europe. The job's been successfully done...
...chapters of parasites and fungi are by no means all of the Agriculture study. "Phony Peach and Peach Mosaic" not only gets to the heart of the annoying fruit virus problem, but also contains some rather caustic remarks about "the phony peach project of 1929." Other chapters of importance include: "Powdery Mildew of Apples," "The Rot That Attacks 2,000 Species," "Stony Pit of Pears," and "Hazards to Onions in Many Areas...
...harem-like bureaucracy between 1933 and 1936. As a combination court favorite and whipping boy, Ickes had a magnificent opportunity to observe his hero, Franklin Roosevelt, at work and at play, and the diary faithfully reports his intimate relationship with the President. But the Ickes of the caustic quotes and belligerent campaign speeches emerges only occasionally; like most diarists, the author was simply writing a detailed and essentially formless account of his daily life, and many of The First Thousand Days will be as full of drudgery for the reader as they were for the author...
...division. Next, Bierwirth paid $6,700,000 for a 25% interest in U.S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc. (industrial alcohol, antifreeze, resins, etc.), has since merged the company with National. He then bought a 20% interest in Intermountain Chemical Corp. (soda ash), and for $4,500.000 bought Algonquin Chemical Co., Inc. (caustic soda, sulphuric acid, chlorine...
Please thank you for the beautifully caustic review [Oct. 26] of Dorothy Carnegie's How to Help Your Husband Get Ahead . . . I have the happy fortune to be married to a gentleman and a scholar, a Samuel Taylor Coleridge sort of man, and I hope that he will stay "useless and lovable . . ." Isn't it odd that Mr. Coleridge is still read and admired after over a hundred years? I wonder who's going to remember the backslapping Mr. and Mrs. Dale Carnegie...