Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beatrice Lillie was robbed of $12,000 worth of clothes and jewelry in London. The thieves could keep it all "and no questions asked," said Comedienne Lillie, if they just returned an uncut sapphire that had belonged to her only son, Sir Robert Peel, killed in the war. Soon she got a sapphire in the mail from a sympathetic stranger ("touching and charming," said the actress), but it wasn't the sapphire...
Passenger facilities at airports are usually inadequate or worse. Chicago's is "a slum. Chewing gum, orange peel, papers and cigar butts strew the floor around the stacks of baggage. ... To rest the thousands there are exactly 28 broken-down leather seats. One must line up even for the rest rooms...
President Truman presided at the press conference, but Politician Truman made the news. Like a man itching to peel off his coat and get into a backyard brawl, he announced that he was out to beat a Democrat who had obstructed his policies in Congress. His target: conservative Representative Roger Caldwell Slaughter of Missouri's Fifth District, onetime neighbor of County Judge Harry Truman and now a candidate for renomination in the August 6 primary (TIME, July...
...Palestine, but it recognized, too, the religious significance of the Holy Land to many peoples; it examined the economic importance and limitations of Palestine, but it also remembered the words of the original mandate and the faith placed in Great Britain by the League; it rejected the 1937 Peel Commission's contention that might (and oil) make right, but it refused, too, to put its trust in a short-sighted, if definite, series of figures...
When an important man slips on a banana peel, he looks more ridiculous than a little fellow. That's what happened to Sammy Baugh this week. Pro football's greatest passer faded behind his goal line, cocked his arm for a risky pass. The ball hit a goal post, bounced back into the end-zone for a safety and a two-point deficit. That deficit cost the Washington Redskins the world's pro football championship...