Word: ferret
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Only one witness would stand still long enough to be counted. He was quiet-spoken, 45-year-old Emmet Lavery, president of the Screen Writers' Guild and a member of the New York state bar. Like the others, he challenged the committee's constitutional right to ferret out a man's personal politics. "But," he said, "let me break the suspense immediately. I am not a Communist. I never have been, and don't intend to be. I am a Democrat, who in my youth was a Republican. Now if the committee is interested...
During the depression, some 1,000 WPA artists helped ferret the dusty, peeling masterpieces from Shaker barns, Manhattan antique shops, Southern California missions and New England historical societies, and sketched them according to rigid specifications...
Friend the Ferret. The shipowners and Labor Department people in Washington had listened over & over again to what Joe had to say about his seamen...
...negotiate on behalf of his own West Coast longshoremen. Smart, articulate Mr. Bridges, who denounced "the capitalist war" until Russia was attacked in 1941, expected no trouble. The operators, he was sure, would give him $1.38 an hour, up from $1.15. So Harry helped Joe, pouncing like a ferret at the operators when he saw an opening...
...four Republican members (others: Maine's Senator Owen Brewster, California's Congressman Bert Gearhart) had hoped to ferret out some damaging facts about Franklin Roosevelt's prewar conduct. To date, they had failed, although they had helped to bring to light damaging evidence of Army and Navy confusion. Most of the material now going into the record, which had already reached 700,000 words, only spelled out verbose repetition...