Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little late," said Mrs. Hadley, who had been waiting for an hour at the St. Louis airport. Asked if they would elope, Barkley laughed and said, "There's only one reason for a man and woman to elope. That's if their mammy and pappy object...
...months, Federal Judge Harold R. Medina had suffered the taunts, insults and studied defiance of defense lawyers with weary patience, as they popped up like hammers on a honky-tonk piano-to protest, to object to rulings, to object to rulings on objections, to object to rulings on objections to rulings. Fortnight ago, Harold Medina, who had often talked as if he had had enough, acted at last. When the Communists' lawyers tried to outshout him, as they had so often done before, Medina peremptorily ordered them to "sit down," and had marshals see that they complied. "Your field...
...could say that the day of the gangster was over. His G-men were the new popular heroes, immortalized ever since on the screen and on the air, and on a thousand box tops, bearing the morning cereal to American boys. The pursuers, not the pursued, had become the object of hero worshipers' affections...
...blaze is Ryoichi Hattori, 43, a jolly, wavey-haired fellow whom many Japanese jazz composers call sensei (teacher). Hattori teaches chiefly by object lesson: he has written more than 2,000 songs, many of them smash hits. Last week his Aoi Sammyaku (Blue Mountains) headed the Japanese radio hit parade...
Caught between an irresistible force and an immovable object, the American Woolen Co. has long had a squeezed feeling. Irresistible force: the demand of consumers, retailers and clothing manufacturers for lower prices. Immovable object: the sky-high postwar price of Australian fleece, up some 120% since 1939 (TIME...