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...Phrase-fancier Franklin Roosevelt had picked up a new one: sixth column. He used it at a press conference to denounce gossips and defeatists who spread rumors planted by enemy agents...
This week the Plain Dealer received far fancier compliments than Churchill's. To celebrate its looth birthday appeared a 402-page history of the Plain Dealer (Knopf; $4), by its longtime chief editorial writer, 65-year-old Archer H. Shaw. A labored labor of love, it added valuable history of one of the most famed U.S. newspapers. Like most such histories-and like the Plain Dealer itself-Author Shaw's book is dullest in the most recent decades...
Saving copper is thus still the only answer to the copper crisis. Some of the fancier notions of this sort...
...bitter disappointment, even though the Army Air Corps had patiently explained that the 6-19 was built not so much for use as for experience in building big ships. Probably there will never be another 6-19, but the lore learned in her building will go into many a fancier ship...
Between 1866 and 1890 something like ten million Longhorns were marched out of Texas into the North and West. Within a few more years, railroads had made possible the shipping of fatter, fancier meat. The Longhorn was doomed...