Word: grating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day the talks continued. This time real logs burned in the grate. Above the mantelpiece an engraving of Lord Byron, whose experiences with Greek liberation had been even more distressing than Winston Churchill's, stared down at the peacemakers. The delegates laughed at each other's jokes, smoked each other's cigarets. Communist Secretary Siantos surprised the Government delegates by blandly accepting their chief peace condition, the disarming and disbanding of ELAS. But Secretary Siantos had a condition of his own: an amnesty for all, not merely some, of the ELAS prisoners in the Government...
...excitement, jostled slowly toward trolley-loading platforms, the masses of Government workers going back to their offices. Inside the Executive Mansion the President shed his dripping coat and hat and immediately went to his office for a press conference. The President's good humor had a steady, coal-grate glow this morning. The conference began with a burst of laughter. Franklin Roosevelt had just informed the men in the front row that he had no news-and they had replied, "Thank...
...brigadier general had a face like a sharp ax and a back like a broomstick. He was all that the Academy taught its cadets an officer should be. He had three daughters and one son. In 1915, a live coal fell from a basket-grate in a dining room in the Presidio at San Francisco, set fire to the waxed floors. Pershing's wife and three daughters, Helen, Anne, Mary, were burned to death. All that was left to Brigadier General Pershing was his six-year...
...these publicity shenanigans grate on many a conservative industrial engineer. But recently Mayphobes had reason to chortle at two May prattfalls: 1) the Arkansas Utilities Commission, which hired the May Co. to make a survey to help develop postwar industries, angrily called the preliminary May survey a valueless rehash of what it already knew; 2) with his usual fanfare, May made a free survey for WPB on "What is holding up production?" Last week he announced that WPB was acting on his report. WPB-sters said it was promptly pigeonholed...
...have relatives at the front in this war. I want them backed up and "generaled" a whole lot better than the present regime has done. So for Senator I wanted a young man who would jab the coals, shake the grate, open the draught and get the fires of action to roaring in this war. Mr. Norris, over 80 and always talking about retiring, didn't seem to be that man. We are proud of his record, but this is a new fight...