Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main Communist platforms is to make the cost of running our government top-heavy. One of these methods is by costly welfare programs...
...able to support them when the Nazis froze Heuss out of teaching jobs. Now, grey-haired and grandmotherly, she will have to be the mistress of the ugly, boxlike presidential mansion at Bad Godesberg. Said Heuss of this German White House: "I can always draw up before the main entrance in my presidential Mercedes, leave by the kitchen, and then drive back to my furnished room in Bonn in my own little...
...poster-slick abstraction of a stage set that might have come out of a studio in midtown Manhattan. Iowa's prizewinner (in the '30s Grant Wood once won three firsts in a row) was a somber doorway that could have opened into a house on almost any Main Street in the land. California's winners, hung in a monster open-air cabana over beds of dazzling yellow marigolds, were low-keyed oil portraits with little sunshine in them. California cautiously separated the conservative sheep from the modern goats, awarded two sets of prizes. First prize (conservative) went...
That is the main thing that bothers the hero of ex-Physicist Mitchell Wilson's long-winded novel (a Literary Guild se lection for October). The hero's other worry: that private interests are hypnotizing the U.S. public with the A-bomb while they quietly muscle in on Washington to seize control of atomic energy. Hardy readers who plow through all of Lightning's small type will learn what he does about it and, incidentally, what life can be like for an atomic physicist these days. There seems to be frustration aplenty...
...Main Chance. At Pryor, Okla., when his boat capsized, J. E. Stamper lost his shirt, hat, shoes, three rods & reels and the outboard motor, but managed to hold on to the 50-lb. catfish he was trying to land...