Word: chews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...County Derry Irishman named William Connor, who writes for the London Daily Mirror under the pseudonym "Cassandra," sharpened his Celtic fangs last fortnight, grabbed a BBC mike, and proceeded to chew up Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, who now broadcasts out of Berlin for Goebbels & Co. (TIME, July 7, 14). Strange stuff for staid old BBC were his scarifying comments...
...single fore and hind legs, and lacking were such details as hooves, eyes, hair and nostrils. But as Aurignacian scratching developed into painting, remarkable sophistication of draftsmanship appeared. In the Montignac group, stiffness of profile has relaxed and action abounds - the beasts run, leap, browse, swim, lie down, chew their cuds. The head of an ancient long-horned cow (see cut) displays an excellent eye and nostril, subtle shading and dappling. To the Paleolithic artist, the more realistic was his picture, the more potent was its magic...
...crack athlete to pass it. The educational requirement, two years of college, can be met by passing a written examination, and last week the Air Corps eased up on its requirements. As if he hadn't troubles enough already, last week Johnny Johnson got another problem to chew. Announced by bald Assistant Secretary of War for Air Bob Lovett was a program for training 8,000 British airmen annually in U.S. schools...
...there was still one big indigestible truth which neither Mr. Morgenthau nor the Congressmen were ready to chew: the fact that the Government, while ready to ask citizens for sacrifices, was not yet ready to make any sacrifices of its own. The budget of many a department for 1942 had been ostentatiously pared -about as deeply as a man is apt to pare his fingernails. Although labor shortages have begun to appear in many an industry, the Administration had made no commitments to reduce relief expenditures, is still spending for relief at the rate of about...
...make this wilderness into a 600,000-acre property for the Lorillards. The memory of Pierre "will be preserved in the annals of New York. ... He led people by the nose for the best part of a century and made his enormous fortune by giving them that to chew which they could not swallow." One of his descendants was Pierre...