Word: crow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unconnected Logic. The Worker had good reason to crow. Though Salisbury's dispatches were supposed to be a factual report on economic progress in the Soviet Union, Salisbury used what facts he had to draw some remarkably naive conclusions. For example, he said that "foreigners long resident in Moscow" took the "cleaning, painting and construction" going on in Moscow as a sign that Russia was not expecting atomic bombs would soon be falling on Soviet territory. He interpreted "a steady increase in the quantity of pots and pans, copper and brass samovars" as evidence that "the Kremlin does...
There were also new rumblings from Washington that steel companies are not expanding fast enough. Though Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer was satisfied, Assistant Secretary of the Interior C. (for Crow) Girard Davidson, one of the Administration's top planners on steel and electric power, last week said that he was not. Said Davidson: by 1953 the U.S. will need 125 million tons of steel, but its capacity will be only 100 million tons...
Thirkell fans are sure to enjoy County Chronicle, in which two nice girls land two nice husbands, a brave widow is spliced to a gallant bishop, and pudgy babies are born and crow in almost every chapter. But students of the contemporary novel are likely to be far more fascinated by Author Thirkell's indefatigable struggle to bring old Barsetshire up to date while simultaneously keeping it out of date...
...Benjamin J. Anderson of a local Presbyterian church told a fellowship meeting that Princeton is "Jim Crow" in many ways. "Built in the shadow of the University," he said, "the town is as backward in opportunity for colored people as any town I know...
...dragger or purse seiner, and she was known as the City of San Pedro. In 1936 the Navy bought her and 20 sister boats, gave them each a 3-in. gun, gear to catch something more deadly than tuna, and names from the birds, such as Bunting, Crossbill, Crow, Puffin and Heath Hen. They all had wooden hulls, so thin that a dummy torpedo dropped in practice from a plane once sank one. Still, the Magpie and her sisters, not without casualties, served in World War II, sweeping up enemy mines off Palau, Okinawa, the Philippines and Normandy...