Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soybeans, wheat, alfalfa seed had all been crowned. The crowd had taken its fill of side-show exhibits: insect pests, choice meat cuts, Sculptor Charles Umlauf 's 13 skating pigs done in lard. Then into the ring at the Chicago Stockyards' International Amphitheatre stepped a hulk ing, bullnecked man with sagging trousers and a wise, weathered face. He was farmer J. Charles Yule, of Alberta, Canada, who had been given the ticklish job of choosing the grand champion steer of the show. This was the big show's climax...
...from each committee a full report of work done that day. Next morning Lord Beaverbrook reads these reports, then takes action. Example: one report told of a small Midlands manufacturer who was down in his output because of a shortage of certain classes of material and labor. A neighbor ing manufacturer had a surplus of both the material and the men, but Manufacturer No. 1 was not on speaking terms with Manufacturer No. 2. So Lord Beaver brook telephoned first one and then the other, coaxed them into cooperating. Next thing he heard, they were buddies...
...Marshal. After dinner he sinks into a big blue chair, turns a spotlight on himself, leaving his guests in the dark, and goes over his papers, firing questions at the guests. In the midst of their answers he interrupts them by picking up a telephone and bark ing: "I want 20 lorries," or "Get me Montreal. . . . I want 50 pilots. I want them at Montreal tomorrow morning." If he happens to notice that his guests look thirsty, he will say: "You must have some champagne. I have the finest champagne collection in London." Every night he telephones...
...French had advertised, and Saigon, which is negligible. The Japanese have already softened up Thailand by an appeal to racism-and might be further bribed by the return of Siamese territory now incorporated in Indo-China. Burma across the way, recently made to bristle with R. A. F. land ing fields (military and naval airfields indicated by red and white windsocks, commercial airfields by blue and white), would probably have to be left until later; but in any case it is on the wrong side of the peninsula for naval action...
Then suddenly everybody knew about "poor Porkey." Sportswriters from coast to coast sobbed about the "poor but honest boy" who had been given a raw deal by golf's "stuffed shirts." Every community wanted to see Porky. The Professional Golfers Association had a hard time book ing a tournament unless Oliver was entered...