Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heart-shaped scarlet cloth draped over a wooden stick which has a handle at one end and a sharp steel point at the other...
During the first meeting around the brand-new green baize (the old cloth had been stolen by a souvenir hunter after last year's peace conference), Molotov sat and listened to Bevin and Bidault. They wanted to establish international commissions to Marshall-plan European recovery on a continental basis. Then, with instructions from the Kremlin, Molotov spoke...
...again lately. We have the new baby now, which makes three of us besides myself; it is difficult for her to take care of everything." The wife lay In a double bed, and she looked desperately weary. But the sheets on the bed were clean. There was a white cloth on the table and flowers in the window, and the baby thrashed around happily in a clean pink woolen suit. There was an electric cooker-"The food from the kitchens has become a great deal worse recently," the mother said-and the clothes were hung neatly in the closet...
Horse-&-Buggy Rules. Last week's speed test was flown under the antiquated rules set up by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale in the days when airplanes were made of sticks and cloth and wire. To establish an official speed record, a plane must stay below 75 meters (246 ft.) over the measured course, and it cannot rise above 1,312 ft. on the turns beyond. Such low-level flying is hampering and hazardous for modern, high-speed jet planes...
Principle attraction of the program now at the U.T. is its variety. "The Lost Honeymoon" comes like a cool, damp cloth on the audience's collective forchead after the emotional tropics of "Bedelia." It's a yarn about a guy who marries when he's in a state of amnesia (a device that is becoming about as common as disguise in Italian opera), and learns that his wife is arriving from England on the eve of his marriage to another girl. Franchot Tone's quiet mugging carries the frail little piece, which includes a number of very, very funny scenes...