Word: mold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grey sky, flying in from Algiers, after an 18-year exile, appears Palmiro Togliatti-and proceeds to mold, the clay. He announces that there must be no antiroyalist agitation. It might even be advisable to roll up the Red Flag for a while, in favor of the national green, white & red. Moscow recognizes Marshal Ba-doglio's royalist government and Palmiro Togliatti enters it as Minister without Portfolio. Less ductile Communists, who still want to rush to the barricades, are pushed out of the party, many by the "respectable" device of being refused support by the Communist machine...
...could be grateful to Walter Piston for the long, flowing lines in his Third Quartet, which opened the program. As a member of the Harvard music faculty, and thus a host with appropriate deference to his guests, he perhaps cast this work in a less massive and less ambitious mold than some of his other works. But here were the familiar urbanity and affability, and the unadventurous continuation of Romantic tradition, strikingly fused with a wholly contemporary, classical economy, and the accompanying sense of fitness and of the exact point of surfeit...
...agents, and a bureaucracy as red-taped as could be discovered anywhere. The war-weariness, pervasive as he found it, has not prevented an increasing return to "normalcy" with prices beginning to come down and new products appearing. Lauterbach's Soviet will not willingly slip back into the wartime mold, but he feels that it can be inched back and that the process has already started...
...Best Flannel. One consequence was that the main bedroom in the Leighton house was littered with oatmeal dust and old lemon peels "turned all conceivable shades of blue and green mold." Underneath a study table heaped with notes scrawled on brown paper bags, paste pots, unpaid bills and old quill pens sat an assortment of patient, sighing dogs-preponderantly Skye terriers, since Queen Victoria had been partial to Skyes. And since the dear Queen was whispered to have been partial to flannel underwear, garments of the best bluish-green Welsh flannel were generally draped over the study furniture and fireplace...
...missing an issue for the first time in 118 years), Economist, Tribune, Time & Tide. If the Government wanted to save power, asked one critic, why not shut down that high-powered thrillmonger (circ. 7,500,000), the Sunday News of the World? The five weeklies, which do much to mold British intellectual opinion, were forbidden such makeshifts as mimeographed sheets...