Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California and some other states, although the law and construction costs were closing in on them. In Atlanta, teen-agers who possessed juiced-up cars had developed a process known as "scratching." They started the car in reverse, whipped backwards in a tight semicircle, then slammed the gears into low and roared off with a squeal of tires and a shower of dust...
...Sovereign whom she called "Grandpapa England." "They're cheering for you, you know," George V explained to her one day as he held her in his arms on the Palace balcony. Lilibet smiled radiantly. Later she was caught testing her royal prerogative by making a playmate bow low in homage...
...critics, "he'd find worm sandwiches and caterpillar jam-green jam." Like her father, Elizabeth worries a good deal over Margaret. "Wherever did you learn such slang?" King George once asked his younger daughter. "Oh," said Margaret, "at my mother's knee-or some such low joint...
...sister's death. Sister Lili died in 1918, a few years after winning the coveted Grand Prix de Rome.* Nadia considered her sister's talent greater than her own. In the large, cold chapel of Paris' La Trinite Church, 100 people gathered to attend a low Mass for Lili. As she does every year, Nadia Boulanger had arranged a music program in Lili's memory. Nadia sat in a front pew; she did not play the organ music-though she is a top organist...
...this dreary, low-level accomplishment, the Commission saw "the greatest danger" to freedom. The giants of communication would either have to put their houses in order, or people might one day ask the Government to do it for them. Obviously government interference, "a last resort," would be a remedy worse than the evil. But the press's own record in self-regulation had not been good. The Production Code had merely made the movies inoffensive (in one sense); the radio was regulated by the unwritten code of advertisers "who will not risk making a single enemy. . . ." The American Society...