Word: owlish
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...Boss. Grey, owlish Fred Vinson had rounded out less than a month as the new Federal Loan Administrator when he was called over to step into Byrnes's shoes, and another tough assignment. But the 55-year-old former Kentucky Congressman was well equipped for the hot-corner spot. He had built a reputation as a skillful Government servant, able to resist pressures, capable of untangling economic snarls with the shrewd persistence of a veteran poker player...
...visit from Memphis' owlish Democratic Boss Ed Crump. Leaving the White House, Ed Crump was mum. Scuttlebutt had it that he had been summoned in an effort to get him to stop Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, the Senate's premier spoilsman, from trying to wreck...
...anecdotes such as an immigrant returned to his homeland might tell to his wondering grandchildren. Few books have ever made the U.S. seem so exotic. The stories were written by Helen Papashvily, George's American-born wife, exactly as he told them, with his florid language and his owlish humor carefully preserved...
...years owlish, opinionated Eugene Lyons has edited the American Mercury (circ. 74,558). Lately Editor Lyons (who was the first U.S. foreign correspondent to interview Joseph Stalin and is an ex-admirer of Communist Russia) has pined for a bigger audience...
...Army Air Forces and the Navy have both issued books for flyers on how to survive on foot in jungle, desert, sea and frozen North. Having absorbed 174 pages of advice on getting along in such places as the Solomons and the Arctic, servicemen read hardest an owlish chapter, tagged on to the Navy book, on how to get along in the U.S. Excerpts...