Word: looming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certain activities along the Rio Grande last week suggested that Texas wages sometimes loom larger to Mexicans than Texas racial discrimination (TIME, Feb. 7). Word got about that Mexicans were sneaking across the Rio Grande, violating their own Government's embargo and taking jobs on undermanned Texas farms...
Britain, until now the main base of the air offensive against Germany, may soon be a secondary base. North Africa, Sicily, Italy will soon loom large in strategic bombing of Germany, and they may well overshadow Britain...
...headlines printed in a dozen representative papers between mid-August and mid-November, 1942-a period in which the good news of North Africa was balanced by grim news from other fronts. He found 1,918 of the headlines optimistic (U.S. FLEET ROUTS JAPS), only 703 pessimistic (MEATLESS DAYS LOOM) and 605 neutral (CONVOY STORY TOLD...
...Dubliners are proud to have a Nobel prizewinner living among them.† But what especially appeals to the Irish is Schrödinger's study of Gaelic, Irish music and Celtic design, his hobby of making tiny doll-house furniture with textiles woven on a midget Irish loom-and, above all, his preference for a professorship at the Dublin Advanced Studies Institute to one at Oxford...
...reported one of the few neutral observers who have been allowed to leave Germany since disaster began to loom in Russia. Other reports last week from the same source...