Word: dish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side of the picture, thought they had something to crow about. Cried Minority Leader Joe Martin: "Now nobody should have any more doubt. Not even President Roosevelt ever asked as much at one sitting. The scenery is new and there is a little better decoration, and he does dish it out a little easier. But it is just a plain case of out-New Dealing the New Deal." Said Representative Charlie Halleck, Republican Congressional Campaign Chairman: "This is the kickoff; this begins the [Congressional] campaign of '46. For the Democrats, it's just more billions and more bureaus...
...weeks that followed weeks, that was all they had. Morbidly Philips and Maclntyre made Zamperini prepare imaginary meals for them, "describing the preparation of each dish, even to the exact quantity of each ingredient." "How Long Will I Last?" On the 27th day a Jap plane spotted them, dived and raked them with machine-gun fire. Philips and Maclntyre, too weak to move, lay in the rafts feigning death. Zamperini went overboard, ducking under each time the Jap plane made a pass, until it finally went away. Unscathed, the three men floated...
This was a taste of what the Government would dish out on V-J day and after. War workers were confused. In Philadelphia, shipyard workers asked when their jobs would end, learned that their bosses did not know. Some plants planned a two-day holiday-so that employes could celebrate while the companies try to discover Washington's intentions...
...Richter gave three rats each a dish containing 139 grams (about 4½ ounces) of operating-room blood and serum. In less than 24 hours "two of the rats had eaten all of the blood and one had eaten 47 grams. When one considers that the average normal food intake of full-grown wild rats does not usually exceed 35 to 40 grams, the large intake of 139 grams indicates that the rats had a real craving for this fresh human blood...
...indictment of the Nation (circ. 37,425) echoed an indictment of the New Republic (circ. 37,253) made some weeks earlier by Contributing Editor Varian Fry, who said on resigning: "After reading your editorial [on Russia] I felt as though I wanted to vomit." Last week Fry found a dish more to his taste. He took over the editorship of Common Sense (which claims over 15,000 circulation) a splinter-leftist monthly whose special recipe for Russia includes a strong-as-curry flavor of skepticism...