Word: chiseled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sheer Friendliness. Radio Writer-Producer Don (Fibber McGee & Molly) Quinn thinks that "this practice amounts to petty larceny. After all, for me to chisel a part of my sponsor's time to give a free plug to someone else in return for an electrical bicycle pump just plain isn't honest." But Quinn has been unable to get the Radio Writers' Guild or his advertising agency to share his indignation. And he concedes that policing the practice is nearly impossible: "Inevitably, a gag will occur that names a national product. You'd be silly...
...made a sturdy foundation for the lake dwellers' homes. In the peaty soil that now covers the crannogs, Raftery and his assistant have uncovered 17 dugout canoes beautifully hollowed from the solid trunks of great oaks. They have also found shards of undecorated pottery, axheads, a dagger, a chisel and other tools. They have dug up bronze ornaments, fragments of a Bronze Age trumpet and some well-preserved saddle querns, the primitive hand mills with which ancient man ground his grain...
Since they lack a domestic program which appeals to the "great masses of citizens," Key said that the test of the Republican's strategy is whether they can "chisel down the Democratic following by flank attacks on the subsidiary issues--of communism, corruption, and foreign policy...
...statuettes-of girls with geese, girls sitting, undressing, standing, kissing -line Denmark's parks and museums, grace its finest homes. All have Henning's trademark: heavy, flowering curves, and a warm, sleepy sense of relaxation. Two years ago Gerhard Henning, 70 and ill, put aside his chisel. Now that he was back at work again, more relaxed limestone girls will be following Recumbent Girl out of Henning's studio...
Scalpel & Chisel...