Word: furrowings
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...such joy would be fleeting. For in their designing rooms and factories all over the U.S. last week. Claire McCardell and all the other makers of the American Look were hard at work. They were doing their best to make sure that in a few months American women will furrow their brows and again be stuck with a great truth: "Here it is fall, and not a thing to wear...
...Ivestia, another: "The Tarangul Motor Tractor Station began its work in the fields about half a month later than last year . . . Not a single furrow has been made in our kolkhoz. The director of our MTS, Comrade Petrov, forgot to give even one single plow to our brigade...
...Long Furrow. In his press conference the President held firm to his order barring testimony about the confidential Jan. 21 discussion in the Justice Department in which White House aides took part (see above). Army Secretary Stevens belatedly issued a statement that the discussion did not govern the Army's actions, and that the Army had taken no orders from the White House. Stevens repeated the statement under oath this week...
...committee's three Democrats saw their error in denouncing the presidential order as a roadblock to further hearings. And committee Republicans backed away from their hopes to cut the hearings short, gritted their teeth in preparation for what Army Counsel Joseph Welch has labeled "plowing the long furrow...
...retaliated. "we do not know," writes Author Prescott. But the burning of heretics, "a principle taken for granted" in Tudor England, now began on a scale never known before or since. "Women at their marketing, men at their daily trade, the cobbler at his bench, the ploughman trudging the furrow-all learned to know the awful smell of burning human flesh, the flesh of a neighbor, of a man or woman as familiar as the parish pump. Mingling with the steam of washing day, or with the reek of autumn bonfires, or polluting the sweetness of June, that stench . . . even...