Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fresh from trouncing Communists in his own United Automobile Workers, Walter Reuther got up at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington and spoke the mouthful of the week. With a boyish grin, he remarked: "I think Henry is a lost soul. People who are not sympathetic with democracy in America are influencing him. Communists perform the most complete valet service in the world. They write your speeches, they do your thinking for you, they provide you with applause and they inflate your ego as often as necessary...
Snow fell in Berlin last week, effacing" some of war's ugly scars. The kids were excited, like kids everywhere, with a good fresh pre-Christmas snow. Some of the grownups were excited, too, for they had plans for the kids. There was going to be a Christmas party in the Admiralspalast Theater for 2,000 youngsters of the U.S., Britain, Russia, France, and their German friends. Then the grownups' plans-as grownups' plans frequently do-went awry...
...till last. That was her galantine, made from a generations-old recipe. Deftly she skinned a ten-pound turkey, carefully keeping the skin intact. Then she sewed up the openings, leaving a hole for the stuffing. In went the beef tongue, two pounds each of chopped veal and minced fresh pork, one pound each of salt pork and finely ground ham. Finally she added the turkey meat, cut from the bones, plus turnips, carrots and lots of onions. Tied in a cloth, the galantine was put in water and bay leaves to cook slowly for six hours. After that...
...Americans, who like to think of themselves as the kindest and most generous people in the world, these gains were tempered by fresh evidence of the deep-rooted suspicion of the U.S. which many a European still nourishes. In the week that the first shipload of Friendship Train supplies left for Italy, and the last U.S. troops departed from Leghorn, a striking Italian worker grumbled: "American workers are capitalists compared to us. They eat the fruit and we eat the peel...
...some of Thackeray's illustrations before (in the Everyman's Library edition), but the Morgan copy was in Thackeray's own neat, minuscule handwriting, and in his watercolors. Thackeray's absurdly hawk-nosed countesses, spindle-shanked kings, periwigged barons, and tubby, pimply princes looked as fresh as if he had just laid down his pen and brush upon his "happy, harmless fableland...