Word: cribbing
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...from the Crib. Now a pink and sturdy 49, Rorimer set out to become a connoisseur of art with the same care that another man might give to preparation for brain surgery or nuclear physics. Dürer's engraving of Knight, Death and Devil hung over his crib, he recalls, and "I was a wood carver before I was a Boy Scout. At nine, I took a course in arms and armor. I got two years off from prep school to visit the art centers of Europe...
...last mile" walk from the death house as a crazed dog is led off to be destroyed. The film's big terror scene takes place in a baby's bedroom, where valiant Tramp kills a red-eyed rat, even though he has to knock over the crib and dump the baby on the floor...
...like an elderly Buick). The Volga is also the first to offer such Western frivolities as the automatic shift, one-piece windshield and built-in lubrication system* operated by pushing a pedal. A four-cylinder , 75-h.p., five-passenger sedan, the Volga's design is almost a direct crib of Raymond Loewy's 1954 Studebaker but its price-about $5,000-comes from the upper end of the Cadillac price list. "Trial tests," said Radio Moscow's salesman, "have proved very successful." But the Volga lacks one important feature: availability. Mass production will not begin until...
...needed in wartime to encourage food production in the face of shortages and inflation, was due to go out within two years after President Truman declared war's end in 1946. But farm-bloc Congressmen of both parties found that 90% was the sweetest manna in the political crib. Democrats conveniently forgot that in prewar 1938, Congress set the basic-crop price-support floor at only 52%; retrospectively, they sold 90% supports as a New Deal measure. Every two years, Congress extended the 90% supports, and farm surpluses piled up in Government storage houses. Example:the U.S. owns...
...Hartleys have a crib ready and are awaiting the day when the hospital releases the baby (or babies). And they have refused an offer from a circus...