Word: drawerfuls
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...hung up in Congress, but something far bigger than that was going on. At stake was the success of the nation's entire wartime food program, not to mention the possibility of entirely unnecessary and artificial inflation of food prices. At stake for a relatively few top-drawer U.S. farmers were several hundred million dollars of velvet...
...bottles in Department of Agriculture laboratories-test tubes of white, yellow, green, grey, brown powders that, doused with water, again turn into Irish and sweet potatoes, spinach, cabbage, carrots. Thus it may be possible for U.S. housewives to store a 2-3 months' food supply in a kitchen-drawer...
...spent his Freshman year. He remembered climbing those stairs for the first time, a bag in either hand, hoping against hope that his trunk would be there waiting for him, and his whistle became almost a chortle as he thought of the ready bed and the tidy bureau drawers waiting in his House room. Visions of sweating Freshmen rummaging through trunks to find that dress shirt that just had to go at the bottom of the first drawer filled his mind, and even the heat could not melt his core of superciliousness when he stalked past the bewildered Freshman about...
...Billy Mitchell's men are still on the job and they are in the top drawer of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Harold L. George, who testified for him in his court-martial in 1926, is a brigadier bossing the Ferrying Command. One of Mitchell's defense counsels, Annapolis-educated Lewis Hyde Brereton, is a major general in command of U.S. Air Forces in India and China. Another defense witness, Henry Harley Arnold, has gone farther than the rest...
...loot is kept in a bureau drawer, where the more recent acquisitions have been piled while still moist on their more moldy predecessors, the whole contributing to what his roommate describes as an olfactory symphony...