Word: looking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Associated Press took a look at the $500 million in pay raises voted by Congress and made a few rapid-fire calculations about the costs of Big Government ¶The federal payroll (including the armed services) is now over $10 billion a year...
...ordered his coal diggers back to work immediately on the same terms that he had haughtily rejected. But he served notice that the strike would be on again Dec. i unless the "arrogant and brutal" mine owners came to terms. At a news conference, where he tried to look ferocious but looked instead like a tired and harried hoot owl, John L. tried to explain that it was not a retreat but simply a gesture of good will...
...Beedle," Ike Eisenhower's chief of staff during the war, went to Moscow as ambassador in March 1946, came home this year (and became commander of the U.S. First Army). In his account of his day-to-day life in Moscow, he gives the U.S. people a hard look through shrewd, unstarry Hoosier eyes at Joseph Stalin and the men in the Politburo...
When passers-by saw it the next morning, they gaped and gasped: the father's massive figure was unclothed. Within a few minutes a crowd of several hundred had gathered, and somebody called the police. The cops elbowed their way through the onlookers, took a horrified look themselves, and carted the statue off to the municipal jail...
...Walter Giblin, wife of a Manhattan broker and a two-day-a-week volunteer worker at Memorial Cancer Center for the last eight months, had worked out a stock and true answer for patients who tell her: "You know, you look just like Constance Talmadge, the silent movie star." Mrs. Giblin's answer: "That's good, because...