Word: crow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...planes, 923 employees, and 3,692 route miles in 1937 to 90 planes, 7,778 employees, and 9,930 miles today. It developed an admirable safety record. And, to the horror of the industry (which not only had to endure the ignominy of loss, but listen to Rickenbacker crow), he made profits every year. In 1947, when other lines lost a record total of $20 million. Eastern made $1,300,000. A fortnight ago he happily announced that it had made $1,968,000 in 1949) Eastern's fifteenth successive year in the black...
...boasting wider public support than Streit's Atlantic Union Committee and some just as well-known backers,*would work out its proposal through U.N. The Cord Meyer group argued that Streit's proposal would split the non-Communist world, create a group of unhappy and neglected "Jim Crow" democracies. Under the Federalists' plan, the U.N. itself would be transformed into a world government. If Russia stayed out, the other nations would go ahead with their organization anyhow. No one but a bemused dreamer expected Russia would stay in in good faith. Streit's seven democracies could...
...Tories chalked up another win in a by-election in Moss Side, a constituency in Manchester. This reduced Labor's overall majority in Parliament to six. If the Laborites did not start eating duck dinners in earnest, they might find that the menu had been changed to crow...
Cake Batter. Nobody was working any harder to do it than Hearstling Pro Tern Fannie Hurst. Novelist Hurst, 60, wore a life-sized enamel calla lily, a jade ring as big as a crow's egg, and a jade-and-gold bracelet so heavy that she had to take it off to type her stories. Her journalistic style was equally flamboyant. She mixed metaphors as vigorously as a housewife mixing cake batter: "Even more than the cloak-and-dagger, who-done-it crime of 'grand passion,' the motives here involved strike, straight as the crow flies, into...
Filing for a permanent injunction against A. B.C. that would ban all its activities within the state, Goldstein's move gave the Congress 20 days to change its Jim Crow ways. A. B.C. officials were expected to do exactly what they did when similar action was taken in Illinois three months ago - nothing. A.B.C.'s 1950 national championship, the World Series of bowling which may draw as many as 30,000 entrants, was set for Columbus, Ohio in April. A.B.C. seemed safe so far. But with A.B.C. facing the fact of diminishing domain elsewhere, it would probably...