Word: chews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party membership lead to that kind of incompetence-by imposing a party line where there should be freedom to inquire? That was a big issue in the Washington case. Now, it seemed, U.S. public opinion, which had never decided for sure what academic freedom consisted of, might have to chew on another: Does party-lining without membership in the party destroy that freedom...
...also be included among occupational hazards. Men who mend fishnets for a living have a high rate, added Cameron, because they hold the bobbin in their mouths, and get tar smudges on their lips. Fumes from tar-surfaced roads may also be a hazard. Pacific island natives who chew tar-bearing betel nuts have a high rate of cancer of the cheek...
When film production lags, most cine-moguls chew their fingernails. But while Producer David O. Selznick is killing time, he makes a tidy profit with a sideline which Hollywood calls flesh-peddling. Unlike an actors' agent, whose commission is fixed at 10%, Selznick gets fat loan-out fees for the stars who are under contract to him as a producer. Because he is Hollywood's shrewdest publicizer of talent, his stars are in great demand. His profit is the fees, minus the salaries he would be paying the players anyhow...
...glut. For various reasons, including lack of storage space, farmers had been forced to sell below support levels. Cash corn was down 36? below the support level; September wheat, 19?. Said one trader: "It looks as if the Government may have bitten off more than it can chew...
Dondero's don'ts: don't smoke behind the rails or chew on unlighted pipes or cigars; don't park feet on the top or back of chairs; don't walk in front of a member who is speaking; don't read newspapers on the floor during a session; don't call colleagues by their given names-Jim or John ("we all know better-it's the gentleman or gentlewoman...