Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ineffective A. F. of L. International Seamen's Union and went C.I.O., they made big Joe Curran top seadog in their aggressive new union. N.M.U. rank & filers had long had a noticeable list to port: some belonged to dockside cells of the Communist Party. No one lifted an eyebrow when a bunch of Commies marched up the gangplank with big Joe, and took officers' quarters...
Moscow's air-conditioned political climate stayed steady as a glacier. Moscow's millions raised no visible eyebrow, spoke no audible comment on Generalissimo Stalin's blast at ex-Prime Minister Winston Churchill...
Maurice Chevalier, still singing in a slanted hat, sharp tux and cocked eyebrow, and still France's No. 1 music-hall darling, set himself for a round-the-hemisphere tour in a one-man show. The greying song-&-dance man would tour the Alps first, then go to Buenos Aires and Rio, then hop to Canada. Then, if his plans panned out, he would do a coast-to-coast tour...
Looking across the border at the tumultuous U.S. strike scene (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Canadians could lift a righteous eyebrow. On their own labor front, trouble was down to an almost irreducible minimum...
...Eyebrow tweezers with a small flashlight for a handle...