Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...questions fired at his subordinates: "What arrangements are you making for curing surplus bacon?"; "How many square feet of glass have been destroyed up to date?"; "Surely you can run to a new Admiralty flag. It grieves me to see the present dingy object every morning." And, as a final touch to the whole figure, there is the Churchill whose mind remembers Virgil when a bomb strikes London's Carlton Club, rendezvous of generations of Conservative politicians. Writes Churchill: "Mr. Quentin Hogg . . . carried his father, a former Lord Chancellor, on his shoulders from the wreck, as Aeneas had borne...
...assured itself of victory by running up a 5 to 1 lead in the first quarter. At the end of the second period the tally was 7 to 2. Substitute goalie Dick Thomas held the winners scoreless in the third quarter, but allowed them three more points in the final period...
...guess you're got the sleeping sickness." Similar interruptions follow throughout the day, invariably accompanied by aspirin, alcohol rubs, more washrags, and a little by podermic needle full of penicillin. And at 9:00 a.m. podermic needle full of penicillin. And at 9:00 p.m. the final Cheerful Nurse appears carrying a bottle of huge red Seconal pills. "Medication for sleep," she calls them...
...Smith's final discharge was unusually quick, when it did come. But now he describes his stay with near-longing in his voice, "It wasn't a bad life--if you didn't need any sleep...
...last major barrier to final passage of a vast housing program appeared to be crumbling yesterday when a leading house opponent indicated foes may be about ready to call off the fight. Rep. Jesse Wolcott (R-Mich.), who led the successful opposition last year, said "I don't think we will be able to stop it now." Two more of the Truman administration's prime legislative goals--a now labor bill and federal aid to education--are due for showdown tests in Congress this week...