Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done well. In the shipbuilding industry, praise or blame is likely to go to one man: a slight, wiry, retired rear admiral of the Navy named Emory Scott Land. For 61-year-old Jerry Land is chairman of the Maritime Commission as well as co-holder of its tennis championship, casual dispenser of its most lurid and effective seagoing profanity. Except for Joseph Patrick Kennedy, who chairmaned the Commission for its first ten months and got it off to a handsome start, he has been its only boss...
...colorful"; he indulges in no cock-eyed hobbies, has nothing of the Norman Bel Geddes. He is a quiet little man with kindly eyes, a soft-spoken accent, and a well-broken-in pipe. He used to smoke two to three packs of cigarettes a day, using a holder and fishing out the minute butts with his wife's hair pin, but he turned to the pipe because it only takes half as much refilling and gives just as much smoking time. Aside from smoking, the Professor has a deep love for good music, good food, and everything about Russia...
Seated at his desk, his cigaret holder jutting up at its usual 30° angle, the President gave his answer. Grinning a tired grin, he picked up his reorganization order, whisked through it swiftly...
...foot course in less than a minute, the winner making it in 52 seconds. The winning woman ran a shorter course in 54 seconds. Each week a gold medal is awarded to the winners of both the men's and women's races. In addition, the lucky ticket holder each Sunday receives a free season pass for the Ossipee...
...holder of the lucky number each week will receive a free season ticket for the 1,350-foot ski tow, the award to be made between 3 and 4 o'clock each Sunday...