Word: jarring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time being, contributors will get modest pay. But lucky Ludwig Bemelmans was allowed to name his own price for a parcel of text and sketches. Said Charlie: "He charged us two cases of champagne, six bottles of brandy, a jar of Coronas and a box of sleeping pills...
...Good Neighbor Mexico was hopping mad, and the U.S. was caught with its hand in the jam jar. The list of U.S. and Mexican labor, immigration, health and customs laws that had been fractured would be as long as a rebozo (traditional shawl of Mexico's Indian women). Worst of all, from the Mexican point of view, responsible U.S. officials had outrageously violated the signed agreement of Feb. 21, 1948, designed to control the flow of seasonal labor and protect Mexican workers from exploitation and prejudice in the U.S. (The February agreements barred bracero labor in Texas because...
...create. "When you walk through the Yard," the architects point out, "you are not struck by the number of buildings so much as by the trees the paths, and the people. In the same way, the Houses by the river are spread out so that they never jar...
...there a Davis or a Blanchard hidden among them? Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik says emphatically, "Those days are gone forever"-but as he says it he gazes blandly at the ceiling, like a boy with his hand in the cookie jar. Blaik and everybody else at the Point feel that, in a pair of sophomores from the South, they have the makings of another Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside...
...their animals to church on the eve of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, famed for his love of animals. Ducks, chickens, cats and guinea pigs by the score turned up at Hereford's Holy Trinity Church. One youngster brought a tiddler (British for sunfish) in a jar. There was a lamb (owner's name: Mary) with its fleece (according to the Associated Press) only slightly soiled, and a pet mouse called Angela. Twenty horses, glossily groomed, but too big for the pews, waited outside...