Word: fruited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prima has been laying it lately, even the most voracious bobby socker gets indigestion. Prima has taken away all of the high rolling rhythms and sweeping operatic phrases which make the latinized jazz of latter-day N.O.W. jazz sparkle and has left only those bawdier mannerisms associated with the fruit man on the corner...
...fruit of his and of the rest of the Paris bureau's labors arrived in Manhattan on schedule for writing and editing. Everything about the report was crystal clear except an explanation of the switchboard in Thorez' regal office. The switchboard was an impressive affair studded with 48 buttons and twinkling red and green lights. LaGuerre, who couldn't take his eyes off of it, asked the leader what it signified. Thorez swore that he never had been able to figure the blamed thing...
...University, or to concentrate overly much on tasks of limited scope such as shipping food boxes to foreign students. Even greater is the temptation to follow the example of Noah who returned to the safety of dry lands after the deluge only to partake excessively of the fruit of the vine. But always there is the realization that the problems of primary importance, the problems which brought on the catastrophe of our time, are not yet being successfully faced...
...Miracle Man." Al Whitney's father was a circuit-riding preacher in Iowa. Al had little schooling. At 15 he invested $2 in a basket of fruit and candy, boarded an Illinois Central train at Cherokee, and told the conductor that he was the new candy butcher. At 17 he was a brakeman, at 26 a freight conductor and a union member who applied evangelistic fervor to his fellow workers' grievances. He got on the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen's national payroll 43 years ago. He has never been off it (present salary...
...that procrastination was bearing a bitter fruit. Germans in the Russian zone were eating 1,600 calories a day, in the U.S. zone, 1,275, m the British zone, 1,000. Much of the machinery left by Russian reparations grabbers was humming...