Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corrosion of their bronze base had seeped through the pores in the gold leaf with which Ghiberti had covered them. Over the years, the doors had dulled, and even Florentines had come to despair that there was any gold left...
Cinemactress Peggy Cummins, who wears a four-leaf-clover charm, skidded on a highly polished floor, landed on the charm, cut her pretty hand...
...inches wider than the 1948 models, more luggage space, 20 square feet of windows and a new-fangled heating and ventilating unit, the 1949 Ford has an optional six-or eight-cylinder motor. The traditional (and hard riding) transverse springs have been replaced by coil springs in the front, leaf springs parallel to the frame in the rear. Price of the '49 Ford: $1,163 and up, f.o.b. Detroit, an average increase...
...white-tiled receiving room of the Goiaz Evangelical Hospital, four sturdy men put down their burden: a moaning farmer who had been gored in the belly by a Zebu bull. Down the corridor at a dogtrot came Dr. James Fanstone. He lifted the banana leaf that protected the man's wound against flies. "Get this fellow into surgery," he said. An hour later, Dr. Jim reported that the patient was doing well. What had he done about the man's innards? "Oh, I just cleaned them off and shoved them back," he said, peeling off his rubber gloves...
...Leaf. After surveying the disaffection and devastation in the central Luzon provinces, President Quirino was back in Manila last week. Said he: "I made the trip to learn exactly what the people expect from the government and what they have against it. . .I think they are ready for the government and officials to turn over a new leaf." Quirino ordered the constabulary to withdraw its patrols, not fight unless attacked. To Luis Taruc, the Huk commander, he sent word that he was ready to offer a general amnesty if the Huks would turn in their guns. But lean Communist Luis...