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...kills all plant life, keeps soil sterile for more than a year, is thus useful for clearing railroad tracks, outside storage areas, etc. Used in smaller amounts, du Font's new product attacks weeds only, permits such crops as sugar cane, cotton, corn, asparagus or carrots to flourish...
...home the current choices of the Guild (Commended by the press to flourish of trumpets), Or rent a costume piece adroitly filled With goings on of Restoration strumpets- And thus, well read, join in without arrears The literary prattle of her peers...
...disappear. He was "promoted" to Vice Premier and given control of all Czech economic affairs. He continued to get a big play in the Czech press. On his soth birthday last July 30, he got the Order of Socialism from Gottwald. Only last month the government unveiled with a flourish Slansky's two-volume history of Communism...
Expansive Flourish. It was all done in grand style. There was a glittering banquet at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, where Harry Truman looked fondly at Bill Boyle and said: "I am as happy as I can be, of course, that my lifetime friend-I have known him ever since he was a kid (I knew his mother before him and she was one of the best Democrats that Missouri ever produced)-is the national chairman of the Democratic Party." Howard McGrath, in an expansive, oratorical flourish, hailed Boyle as "that eminent lawyer from the state of Missouri, ever devoted...
...little mental midget who is used as a megaphone for the Communist party-line type of smear." Instead, he orated for more than an hour to the assembled Republicans. Many of them had opposed inviting him. But after hearing Joe reiterate his familiar charges and watching him flourish "documentation," the delegates stood and cheered. At meeting's end, the 17 state chairmen unanimously and formally pledged McCarthy their support as Joe hustled off for more speechifying at the annual dinner of Pennsylvania's V.F.W. in Harrisburg...