Word: lesse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheek. Stryker, in savage crossexamination, had already raked over Chambers' moral character as a young man (TIME, June 13). Last week, like a leopard on the prowl, Stryker hunted through Chambers' spoken and already recorded words for inconsistencies. Sometimes Stryker had help in the hunt from no less a person than Federal Judge Samuel Kaufman, onetime trial lawyer, conducting his first big case...
...dikes. But as the cabinet held another emergency meeting to deal with wildcat strikers, the strikers themselves showed signs of coming to heel. In Liverpool 8,000 dockers voted to go back to work. For the fifth successive Sunday, striking locomotive crews dislocated rail traffic; but the stoppage was less severe than on previous weekends, for some crews worked in defiance of the strike leaders' pleas...
...Labs have a stock of plants as well as animals. On the top floor, less than 100 yards long, is one of the world's strangest greenhouses. It contains...
...return, besides the Gander rights U.S. airlines got several much less important routes into Canada. Some U.S. airmen were outraged. They complained that their lines had not been permitted to participate in the negotiations, although T.C.A. had. Colonial Airlines' fiery President Sigmund Janas, who has spent 19 years building up traffic on the New York-Montreal route, was the hardest hit. He charged that the agreement had been made at "unprecedented secret and concealed negotiations." Said he: "Nothing more shocking ever has occurred in international aviation diplomacy . . . valuable rights [have been] sold down the river...
...Engineers estimate that the 90 miles could be covered in 90 minutes if, as planned, the road were to run uninterrupted from border to border. Like the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut, the highway would have a minimum speed law. From the safety angle, speedways are many times less dangerous than winding roads. On the Maine link from Kittery to Portland, for instance, there has been only one fatality since December, 1947--a score of one death for 70 million vehicle miles...