Word: organism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northern hills "the word" had come by Radio Moscow, straight from the editorials of Pravda and Izvestia: no compromise; the fight goes on. Only a few hundred had trooped in from their hideouts to accept the amnesty which "liberals" in Western countries had demanded. Scoffed the Communist organ Rizospastis: "We welcome the leaflets which make badly needed tobacco wrappers, notepaper, fire starters and other essential if unmentionable tissue...
...pumped* several times. . . . My tail is better but the hard benches hurt it a little. I rub it with Arnica but it is not easy. . . . The only ball I received I nobly missed, and it landed biff! on my stomach, to the great annoyance of that intricate organ, and to the great delight of all present. ... I should very much like a red turtle neck sweater...
...Romance of Rosy Ridge (MGM) presents Van Johnson as a plumpish Barefoot Boy who wanders into Missouri's Ozarks and settles down with some folks named MacBean to help with the harvesting. Besides being useful around the house and barnyard, Van is quite a man with the mouth organ, the banjo, his larynx, and the ladies...
...many at the auction, Doré's paintings looked like tremendously outsized Sunday school chromos darkened by varnish and dirt. In the general murk, Moses could be discerned gesticulating at Pharaoh, a sad-faced monk daydreamed over an organ, pagan gods fell in a heap beneath a cross, and Paolo and Francesca embraced in hell. Critics wondered how the great illustrator could possibly have turned out such daubs...
Throughout C. F. & I.'s plants last week as the workers picked up their copies of the company's newspaper, the Blast, they blinked at his latest example of understanding. The Blast looked more like a union handout than a company house-organ. On the front page was a play-by-play factual account of the convention of District 38 of the steelworkers. The issue carried pictures of the delegates and articles of union interest written by union members...