Word: peare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, slicing into a juicy pear, Togliatti took a good firm Communist bite at the Marshall Plan. No, in the long run it could not help Italy. Why? He said that he here agreed with classic liberal economics: it would make the country a charity case, dependent on American aid, and sluggish in developing its own healthy economic character. Italian export industries, he argued, should be filling old German markets in eastern Europe-"countries which are thirsting for our goods." "But," he charged: "America prefers to keep those markets sealed up for the industry of western Germany that...
...sort of phame that Edward Lear was after. A shy, pear-shaped six-footer with a bulging nose and "a beard that resembles a wig," he was a melancholy bachelor who could "blubber bottlesful" over Tennyson's poems. The son of a bankrupt, he began painting for his living at 15. It was as a painter, and not as a writer of "bosh," that he wished to be known...
...home in bed with a cold, to "My darling Mumkin and Pap: Good morning I hope you have used Pear's Soap and are flourishing now . . . you will be horrified to hear that my temperature is 150°-But really I have got a 'petit rhume' only...
Cried the leftist Franc Tireur: "Ramadier does not govern; he compromises. He does not act; he maneuvers. He does not decide; he parleys. He cuts the pear in two, gives the worse piece to his friends and the better to his enemies...
...York Democrats were eating high on the hog. At Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, 1,300 diners paid $100 a plate for a meal of crab meat in avocado pear figaro, consommé de volaille madrilene, paupiette of Boston sole Marguery, filet mignon sauté with mushroom colbert, salad chiffonade Argenteuil, bombe vanilla sur socle with black cherries jubilee. Cocktails and two kinds of wine were thrown...