Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...residential section of the White House, and Ike chatted with Simmons until the President arrived in his office and buzzed a "show him in" signal. Then Ike went in for his first face-to-face meeting with Harry Truman since last June, when the President pinned a fourth Oak Leaf Cluster on retiring NATO Commander Eisenhower...
...Truman and Eisenhower had "worked out a framework of liaison and exchange of information," but made clear that "General Eisenhower has not been asked to assume any of the responsibilities of the presidency until he takes the oath of office." Before Ike left, Harry Truman handed him three loose-leaf volumes summarizing U.S. policies through the world, and top-secret plans in case of all-out Communist attack on Korea, Yugoslavia or Iran...
...Clarion Call is an amusing study in pitch black and snow white, with Richard Wildmark slamming women and manhandling kittens with finesse and obvious relish. In The Last Leaf, Gregory Ratoff is the idealistic but frustrated abstractionist, born twenty years too soon; here, the part happily becomes more Ratoff than O. Henry...
...Magi (0. Henry's most popular story) about a poor bookkeeper (Farley Granger) who sells his gold watch to buy a set of jeweled combs for his wife (Jeanne Grain) for Christmas, while she sells her beautiful hair to buy him a platinum watch fob; The Last Leaf, in which an unsuccessful artist (Gregory Ratoff) paints his masterpiece to keep a dying girl (Anne Baxter) alive; The Clarion Call, about a cop with a conscience (Dale Robertson) who has to arrest an old chum (Richard Widmark...
Handy Reference. In Washington, the Department of Agriculture put out a farm pamphlet on corn-leaf blight entitled: "Cultural and Pathogenic Variability in Single-Conidial and Hyphal-Tip Isolates of Helminthosporium Turcicum Pass...