Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with an ice-cold footnote to history: Franklin Roosevelt had once declined the honor of having an Antarctic sea named for him. The President had informed the board that he would much prefer "a smoking volcano" to a frozen ocean. The board informed the President that it was fresh out of smoking volcanoes...
...vacationists, several of whom, like Bureau Chief John Osborne, have already fled to the lusher larders of Switzerland or Ireland. Others will follow, including homesick Correspondent Eric Gibbs, who writes: "A log cabin, a Minnesota lake fringed with evergreens, blue sky, a hot sun, lots of sizzling bacon and fresh (not dried) eggs-those are the main elements of the holiday I'm planning. Reason: they're in short supply here. Transportation should be easy. I leave London in the afternoon, am due to reach Minnesota next evening. Then it's just a matter of eating, drinking...
Once a year, Portinari returns to the village of Brodowsky, where his father & mother still live. There he stays for several months, storing his mind with fresh images of the poverty-worn Negro and mulatto coffeeworkers among the red-brown hills. When he came back from Paris last December, he started a series of sad pictures and a series of happy pictures. "But now I don't feel so much like painting happy pictures. I feel more like sad pictures...
...This is John Daly . . .calling CBS in London. . . . I've good news-great news. . . . Land is near. . . . Flocks of migrating birds have been flying overhead. . . . A branch was fished out of the water with the leaves still fresh, and a little flower clinging to it. ... Perhaps it will be hours yet, but not a man on board...
...writing it, Author Dickens (great-granddaughter of Charles) pays her respects to the time-honored story of the patient-this one a wounded soldier-who falls in love with his nurse. But she has also created an affectionate picture of a Shropshire household. The Happy Prisoner exudes a country-fresh odor of plowed earth and drying horse blankets...