Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boldness and the strength of the dictatorship until a point is reached when it thinks it can wage a successful war. The Russians are the more liable to overestimate their strength at some point because they underestimate the residual health of the democratic-capitalist world in much the same fashion as Hitler did, being fooled as he was by their own propaganda and the inability of a dictator's minions to tell him the truth...
...these first-team members were in the contact session yesterday, and the "A" team was moving in high gear. Vince Moravec was bucking in vicious fashion, and Chip Gannon and Leo Flynn also drew praise for their running. On the line, Harlow was especially pleased with Rodis, who is coming along in excellent shape...
Harlow praised the work of guards Nick Rodis and Emil Drvaric, and especially the defensive efforts of center Jack Fisher, who intercepted one pass, backed up the Varsity line in rugged fashion, and was named by the Varsity as the man who blocked the first Princeton extra-point attempt. Press box denizens gave credit to Rodis, Drvaric and Chet Pierce, either separately or en masse, in their Sunday morning dissertations, but the opinion of the Harvard locker room was that Fisher was the man of the hour...
...yesterday. The colonial policy of France was one of the principal sores of the Third Republic." An angry clamor broke out in the Chamber. Some rightist and center deputies stalked out in indignation. Others, including MRP President Maurice Schumann, bolted from their seats toward the speaker in a menacing fashion, shouting insults as they came. Algerian followers of Abbas got ready to join the seemingly inevitable melee as the siren in the corridors shrilled to evacuate the press and public galleries. But, to the obvious relief of President Vincent Auriol, a small army of quickwitted ushers surrounded the menaced speaker...
Lucius Beebe, U.S. journalism's most rococo columnist, went digging for facts in Colorado, after his fashion. To mine material for another nostalgic book about his hobby, railroads, locomotive-loco Lucius, assisted only by his Manhattan roommate, a photographer, and a small, hardy retinue, braved narrow-gauge trails in a private railroad car (b. circa 1870). Like the Englishman in the jungle, Prospector Beebe dutifully dressed for dinner every night. The grub: caviar, foie gras, pheasant, champagne...