Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press conference last week the President was crisp, cool and thoughtful. He had a fresh haircut and his blue double-breasted suit was freshly pressed. He also wore an air of touchiness, as if the thumping criticisms he had taken in the last three weeks had left some soreness...
...crowd roared Land of Hope and Glory, with Churchill hoarsely joining in. It was clear that the grand old man had given the party fresh spirit. But had he satisfied the party's "Young Turks"? If, indeed, the party did regain power, what was to be done about the nationalization already in effect? Said one young delegate: "We can't very well unscramble that omelet...
...they have attained the military strengh to enable them to engulf peace loving nations. The opportunity for such action will be presented when the United Nations General Assembly meets on October 23. The Spanish problem is certain to be on the agenda. Perhaps nothing more than a dearth of fresh air will result from these deliberations; but if the U.N. passes up this chance to exert moral, economic, or military pressure upon the only remaining Fascist axis, it will have wasted its most convenient opportunity to prove that the nations of the world are able to work together to secure...
...Standard Gas went into reorganization, and V.E., who had been chairman of the board, stepped out in favor of Leo Crowley. The great days of financial legerdemain, when a man could run a few electric light bulbs into a utility empire, were gone for good. V.E. looked around for fresh territory. In the sprawling Cord Corp., which then included AVCO as a subsidiary, he found...
...probably just as well that there are only four periods of fifteen minutes each in any one football game. If the spectacle on Soldiers Field Saturday had been prolonged very much whatever elation was felt when the final horn did blow would have evaporated into nothing. A big fresh team making hash out of a smaller tired team isn't much of a show, even for the Crimson cheering section . . . There was an uneasy feeling that this team, which, as everyone knows, doesn't run up 49-0 scores that belong to Texas couldn't have been a Harvard football...