Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manager, who knew how to turn out cute promotion pieces and ingratiate himself at newspaper drama desks. To his pastor, the Rev. Ralph Bertholf, he was a pillar of suburban Wakefield's First Baptist Church, a well-favored Sunday-school teacher and editor of the church's paper, Tall Spire. To everyone else, he was a friendly guy who looked much younger than his years, liked a drink now & then, foisted neither his religion nor his politics (whatever they were) on anybody...
...coolie sweeps his twig broom. Outside, street lights flicker wanly until 11 p.m. Then they go out. After midnight (curfew hour), the streets are deserted save for rifle-toting municipal gendarmes in shabby black uniforms and yellow armbands, who shamble along preceded by a youngster holding a lemon-colored paper lantern...
...persuasion to work with. Perón's government had granted 600,000 pesos for expenses, and impecunious professors could thus be offered a handsome junket with all expenses paid, plus 25 pesos a day for spending money and a bonus of 2,000 pesos for reading a paper. That did the trick, and brought in many of Europe's and Latin America's philosophical bigwigs...
Business Manager High School Annual, Editor High School Paper, President Social Science Debate Club, National Scholastic Press Delegate, Illinois Boys' State Delegate...
Barnaby had feared the results of the trip would be much worse, since the 1949 tennis team is on paper a far cry from the experienced squad of 1948. Last year's North Carolina team shut out the Crimson, 9 to 0, and the current Tarbeel squad is a strong...