Word: husk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honorary Bricklayers. In the refrain of "Squire" Harge, superintendent of the mission, he must "husk the corn and shell it and finish the fall plowing and get up some fence posts and flail out the wheat and boss the Indian women while they dig the rest of the turnips and potatoes and move that big stone under my kitchen stove and put a new floor in my sitting-room and there's some repairs on the cart and we need a new privy and a couple of ox-yokes and I have a clock that...
...Party guide their main course on the basis of a hard core of theory, and have done so for 25 years with "amazing consistency." Around the hard core of theory is a hard layer of what Stalin calls program. Around this is a layer of strategy, then an outer husk of tactics...
...Japs had left Tarlac nothing but a blackened husk of a town. They had got their men out and destroyed their supplies. Only in the northeast they were fighting like catamounts, forcing some Sixth Army units to fierce local combat, which was incongruous with the overall pattern of planned withdrawal. There was evidence that the enemy, having been bested by Krueger in 16 operations, at last had realized that it was useless to fight an old soldier on his own terms...
Sneered ungrateful Leader Jinnah: "A parody of negation. . . . Pure shadow and husk of our Pakistan scheme...
...Water-soluble vitamins and minerals, which are lost to rice when the brown bran husk is removed in the usual commercial milling process, are largely retained in the Huzenlaub process...