Word: folds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...classes moyennes were organized. Small and medium businessmen, doctors, lawyers, architects, chemists, artists, writers had been loosely united ten months ago by the National Committee for Liaison and Action of the Middle Classes, which counts 7,000,000 French men & women in its fold. Its spokesman is a 54-year-old Parisian named Leon Gingembre, whose name matches his personality (gingembre means ginger). Tall, thin, grey, dynamic, Gingembre, a small manufacturer of pins & needles, has bushy eyebrows and the eyes of a zealot, switches his wide smile on & off like a lamp...
...Father X. "All right, bring it in." A moment later three young men appeared, grunting under the weight of a long package. It was pointed at one end, wide and flat at the other. Toward the pointed end was a bulge-just where the feet of a machine gun fold...
Said he: "The Cardinals refer to him, in hushed tones, as Fearless Bert Wilson. He has fixed upon the Cardinals a cold, disapproving eye, and frankly, we are not up to meeting it. We have lowered our own eyes. He has been predicting for weeks that the Cardinals would fold...
...Gentleman emerged as a classic of hack Hollywood writing; the gags virtually bear serial numbers. Amusing no one, inflaming no one, the show did a fast fold...
...defraud the Civil Service Commission. The electorate nevertheless had made him mayor of Boston four times, governor of Massachusetts once and U.S. Representative thrice. Political observers, knowing that Jim was pouting because President Truman took so long to let him out this time, figured that the boss might fold his hands and sit out the 1948 campaign...