Word: ferretted
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...Corbusier is drafting a revolutionary blueprint for the broken towns of western France. His colleague, Auguste Ferret, is directing 45 architects on the reconstruction of Le Havre. Their first project has already materialized-a new bourse (stock exchange), built in 60 days out of salvaged brick. Around Rouen and St. Quentin "youth teams" of the Ministry of Labor are learning the building trades, forming the nucleus of a French CCC. The Government also hopes for 300,000 to a million German (slave) laborers...
...What should pop up in the Hudson Valley last week but Archeology itself. And the ferret that caused the pop was no Archeologist, Ph. D., but a Girl Scout. Ten-year-old Betty Lou Norris of Brooklyn and other Scouts had listened to lectures on Indians, went hunting rock shelters. In one shelter near New York's Kanawauke Lake, Scout Norris spied charred deer bones. She yipped to her friends; they yipped to William Henry Carr, head of Bear Mountain Trailside Museum. Inured to the "discoveries" of amateur archeologists, he went and had a skeptical look. Whereupon, knowing...
...English psychological thriller, Murder Without Crime shows the stabber hardly able to hide the body of his victim before his ferret of a landlord pokes his head in the door and his nose into everything...
...Freshman what "Reiu hardt" means, and he'll probably tell you (and after does) that it's a brand of ale. Ask him to sing "Harvardiana," or even "Fair Harvard," and he mumbles about "a physics lab" and his eyes dart around, for all the world like a cornered ferret's, as he tries to sneak past you. Does anyone know who John the Orangeman was, or Max Keezer? My God, there are people here now who think that Winthrop House is "one of them there Harvard Clubs...
Thus the capital made holiday. In so doing it also honored the memory of Ch'ii Yuan, high-minded poet and statesman of Chu, the feudal state that covered much of central China some 2,200 years ago. Ch'ii sought vainly to ferret corruption from his government, was slandered and exiled. Heartbroken, he composed his famed poem Li Sao (Dissipation of Sorrow), then on the fifth day of the fifth moon drowned himself in the Mi-Lo River. Legend relates that kind fishermen tried to recover his body, thereby began the custom of the dragon-boat races...