Word: colds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this period of a cold war," he said, "I do not believe the usual rules as to political parties apply to the Communist Party. I am convinced that conspiracy and calculated deceit have been and are the characteristic pattern of behavior of regular Communists all over the world...
...this period of a cold war, I do not believe the usual rules as to political parties apply to the Communist party. I am convinced that conspiracy and calculated deceit have been and are the characteristic pattern of behavior of regular Communists all over the world. For these seasons, as far as I am concerned, card holding members of the Communist party are out of bounds as members of the teaching profession. I should not want to be a party to the appointment of such a person to a teaching position with tenure in any educational institution. But with this...
...however, sportswriting would soon lost its calling. The positive benefits of the trade center around the fact that the writer can enjoy all the excitement of athletics, avoiding at the same time all of the unpleasantness (i.e. the physical effort). This is a very tempting set-up, especially on cold November afternoons, when, clip-board in hand, the writer ascends to the relative warmth and comfort of the Soldier's Field press-box, whence he can gaze down in fine scorn on players and spectators alike...
...pictures miss few of the hairs. Using the Renaissance technique of egg tempera painting on wood panels, Hurd confines himself to precise portraits of people and places, dramatized by isolated figures, long shadows and cold, gleaming colors. The paintings that tell of the barren hills and washes, the deserts and clear bright light of New Mexico are as knowing and sincere as an honest man's praise of his own family...
Baseball's 18 bad boys, who went over the hill to the ill-fated Mexican League, had sat out in the cold for three years. Barred from organized baseball, Max Lanier, ex-pitching star for the St. Louis Cardinals, made a living with Drummondville of the outlaw Quebec Provincial League; ex-Dodger Catcher Mickey Owen tried his hand as an auctioneer and played semi-pro ball in South Dakota; others played for peanuts in Venezuela...