Word: fellowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From the Hebrew nezem, a ring in a hog's nose, and, by extension, a handsome fellow lacking brains, morals or character...
...reporting of the proceedings in the Turkish press. Meanwhile, all signs were that, whatever the status-of-forces agreement might say, U.S. consular officials had shown little interest in getting in touch with the four sergeants. During the testimony, Sergeant Dale McCuistion, the chief defendant, angrily blurted that a fellow serviceman's Turkish wife, who had been with McCuistion at the time of his arrest, had not appeared in court because "the American consul gave her a U.S. visa and let her get out of Turkey." Infuriated by the charge, for which McCuistion offered no supporting evidence, U.S. consul...
Milk? "I get 750 gallons a year per cow," said Ukrainian Farmer Fedor Kozlovsky. "Not bad, but I'm doing better than that," said British Farmer Nye Bevan, who, with fellow Laborite Hugh Gaitskell, had turned up in the Soviet Union to reap some of the summer's bumper crop of Russian-grown political hay. "But you weren't overrun by Hitler," said Fedor. Said Nye: "Those were not cows that were overrun by Hitler...
...garden. He came back to cast a jaundiced eye on the serried ranks of glass boxes rising along the main streets of Manhattan and other major cities. "Our life gives promise of being spent in look-alike houses, look-alike automobiles and look-alike buildings," he warned his fellow architects...
...Taste for Shot. In writing of Jones's shoreside activities, Historian Morison is sometimes nearly as lubberly as was Paul Jones himself, e.g., he is positively precious in describing Jones's squalid love life, once wonders romantically about a Jones bastard: "Did the little fellow die in infancy? Or did he grow up and fight Napoleon under the English flag, or what?" But Samuel Eliot Morison has no peer in writing of war at sea, and nowhere is he finer than in his description of the meeting on Sept. 23, 1779 of Bonhomme Richard and H.M.S. Serapis...