Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instant, like heat lightning, an announcement dimly outlined a far horizon. There had been a shake-up in Soviet Russia's high command. The world was left to wonder about the details and the meaning of this dark, distant scene...
...friends recall it. Pearl, as they unfeelingly refer to her, did not come to Oklahoma until 1906, they say, when she was a full-blown, dark-haired woman of 25. Her father, William B. Skirvin, was a farm-implement salesman, a brash, stubby little cockerel of a man, who left Sturgis, Mich, and headed for the thriving Southwest. Like many another boomer, he set up in real estate in Galveston, Tex., then made a killing around Alta Loma, 18 miles north. Oldtimers are still bitter about that. Wrote...
...should be bitter," he went on. "But the bomb brought immediate surrender, which saved many more lives than were lost. While it destroyed materially, it did not destroy spiritually. It has meant that we Japanese who are left can build a better and freer country than the one our militarists took...
Westbrook Pegler Annual Award of Journalistic Infamy, with the nomination committee to include the poundmaster and chief plumbing inspector of the District of Columbia, and the prize plaque to be "a rectangular shield transversed by a double cross, surmounted by a turkey buzzard . . . with jackal couchant in the left upper quarter and the symbolic figures of Truth and Decency outraged supine in the lower right quarter...
...three experts concurred in the belief that the American housing problem if left unchecked could have world-wide reverberations...