Word: crushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walda Winchell, 17-year-old blond daughter of Columnist Walter Winchell, signed a renewal contract with 20th Century-Fox, assumed the cinemalias. Toni Eden, commemorating her current crush, Britain's Foreign Secretary...
cabbage patch, a 14-year-old French lad joined us and clapped his hands in delight. An old man picked up a wooden plank and tried to crush the skull of one of a file of German prisoners who were being paraded down the thoroughfare. Men and women leaned on their picket fences and smiled ironically at their erstwhile masters now humiliated before their eyes...
...vast plain , of Honan, gaunt Chinese farmers watched the enemy tanks crush their fat grain, watched the enemy horsemen feed their mounts on ripe wheat...
...Scholarly Lieut. Colonel Borth delivered groceries as a boy, remembered how he used to crush "large firm rolls of toilet paper" flat so he could cram them into pasteboard cartons...
Seven Deadly Sins. To ward off the public beating now beginning to come labor's way, Businessman Johnston proposed that labor and management "hit the sawdust trail together." Both groups, he declared, are guilty of "seven deadly sins": monopolistic practices to crush competitors; autocratic leadership; failure to make proper financial accounting to members, employes and the public; too many strikes, which withhold labor and new inventions from production; violence on the picket line, sometimes incited by management's hired thugs. The worst economic sin, said Johnston, is restraints on production by "featherbedding" and "slow-downing" designed to make...