Word: nut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lait's own bonus-winning lead on a story about Murderer Harry Thaw's escape from a New York insane asylum, and his cross-country flight in the summer sun: "Harry Thaw arrived in Chicago last night, brown as a nut...
...remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a handbarrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail jailing over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the saber cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards...
Many other Siamese remembered Phibun with less pleasure. When he first made himself Siam's dictator, in 1938, he forbade Siamese to go without hats or shoes, to chew betel nut, to sit on the streets, to wear the panung (native skirt), or to dance to American and European music. In official photographs, shoes and hats were painted on unshod, hatless peasants. Phibun ordered officials to kiss their wives when they left for their Government offices. Violators of Phibun's decrees were whisked off to "self-improvement centers." When the Japanese took over Siam, Phibun collaborated with them...
Clint Anderson had been guilty of bad team-play; he had also poured cold water on the generous impulse of many a U.S. citizen. Nevertheless, there was a solid nut of truth in what he had said. Trying to save grain by starting with the consumer was like trying to lower prices through such retail price-cutting schemes as the ill-fated Newburyport plan (TIME, May 5). The only sensible place to start saving grain was where it came from-on the nation's farms...
...Roosevelt sent off a second note: "This Eisler case seems a hard nut to crack. What do you suggest?" This brought another polite brush-off from Welles. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt, now busy with U.N. duties, told newsmen that she had never met Eisler and did not remember writing the notes to Welles. "When I was in the White House," she said airily, "I had hundreds of such requests a month, and, depending on the character of the request, the letters were passed on to the correct Government department...