Word: flailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shaw of Cleveland. Just because she couldn't whistle, she complained to the Yellow Cab Co., she could never get a taxi. The company consulted its drivers. Yep, they agreed, it was true-hardly anybody knows how to whistle down a cab anymore. Even the men stand mutely, flail the air with a newspaper and hope. "And the women never could whistle," added Cabbie Joseph Likover. "They just run along the curb and wave...
...alltime low of 70 last season, was going to shrink further still. The modest wartime boom was really over, but high production costs remained. Producers looked in vain for the freehanded angels who had gone with the boom. Reported Variety last week: "Nearly all [producers] have to ... flail the underbrush for money...
Honorary Bricklayers. In the refrain of "Squire" Harge, superintendent of the mission, he must "husk the corn and shell it and finish the fall plowing and get up some fence posts and flail out the wheat and boss the Indian women while they dig the rest of the turnips and potatoes and move that big stone under my kitchen stove and put a new floor in my sitting-room and there's some repairs on the cart and we need a new privy and a couple of ox-yokes and I have a clock that...
Histrionic Patrick Jay Hurley got what he wanted: a chance to flail away at the State Department in the full spotlight of a Congressional hearing. A crowd jam-packed the big chamber. Ex-Ambassador Hurley had promised to pull no punches, to name names and dates and places, to expand his charges that career diplomats had done "an inside job" of sabotaging U.S. foreign policy, particularly in China (TIME...
...George Washington's farewell address, delivered by Representative Marion T. Bennett of Missouri. Then Michigan's labor-baiting Clare Hoffman got the floor and the House forgot all about George Washington and Bill Gallagher, too. Clare Hoffman was barely set on his feet when he began to flail away at the C.I.O., the P.A.C. and the Communists. Michigan's Frank E. Hook, supported by C.I.O.-P.A.C. in the last election, broke in to defend his friends. Said he without heat: "The C.I.O. and the P.A.C. are doing more to keep down the Communists than any other group...