Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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backwoods by generations of hard-bitten country folk, the old hillbilly ballads are sometimes of rare melodic beauty. But most of them hew closely to a few homely, foursquare formulas. The songs get their quality, if any, from their words - long narrative poems evolved by generations of backwoods minstrels...
...before entering a hospital to reserve a place on the 'table.' An operation means 15 to 20 days being waited on in comfortable surroundings. . . . The actual operation is much more easily performed as there are no thick layers of fat for the surgeon's knife to hew through...
...Jennings, "I put five on the nose to win." Mr. Turner, "Don't you think my hew Beach Cloth whites look pretty sharp...
...with a come-hither accent." The distributors have yet to persuade U.S. perfume brewers, who fall into two general classes, 1) the topnotchers,. who claim there is no adequate substitute for their dwindling hoards of French, Bulgarian, Chinese and Tibetan essences, and 2) volume producers who claim that any hew product will have to be more than good to compete with domestic substitutes and synthetics already available...
Washington was used to not noticing Christy Sullivan. In all his years in Congress, Christy had never made a speech. He attended few sessions, left the actual running of the Tammany bloc in Congress to shrewd, pugnacious Tom Cullen of Brooklyn. Ways & Means Committeemen, among whom hew:as third-ranking member, got used to seeing Christy lean over to Cullen, whisper: "Which way do I vote on this...