Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jury of eight men and four women in Los Angeles voted to disinherit two Irish setters which had been bequeathed $30,000 by their master. The jury learned that Owner Carleton R. Bainbridge had believed that the dogs could talk, that he had read bedtime stories to them...
...point of view it seems so foolish, and we wonder what is the real motive behind it. I cannot, myself, believe that it is the prelude to war. These 14 men in the Kremlin, who rule with despotic power the vast populations and territories of which they are the masters, are very capable and well informed. If their minds were set on war I cannot believe that they would not lull the easygoing democracies into a false sense of security. Hitler was a master of this, and always before or during some act of aggression he uttered soothing words...
Another is Harold Wilson, 31, the youngest President the Board of Trade has ever had.* A star student at Oxford and later a don, he is an expert on coal and a master statistician. The third is George Russell Strauss, 46, the new Supply Minister, who made his mark as the Transport Ministry's parliamentary secretary by brilliant work on the transport nationalization bill...
...Time I Saw Paris, which Oscar first wrote as a poem, Jerome Kern later put to music). This system of creation puts the pinch on the lyricist; and it is in the pinches that Oscar has earned the awe of his fellow craftsmen, who refer to him as "The Master." Oscar now writes his words first and lets Rodgers weave a song...
...Subservience before the boss is a talent of statesmanship which Harry Truman mastered to perfection. Endless readiness to serve his Wall Street master-this is what finally took the small Missourian to the White House. . . . Let Vandenberg, Byrnes, Dulles, Hoover manager him, and let Clark Clifford . . . write his speeches for him. Let Truman only read them tolerably well. Thus Harry Truman has become the clerk of American imperialism. . . . He no longer says, as formerly, that he never takes political decisions without consulting his wife. He knows now with whom to consult! . . . In his squeaky voice already is heard the sound...