Word: petered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deakin sat tight, hoping the strike would peter out. So, for days, did Prime Minister Clement Attlee's Labor government. But British tempers frayed. Cried a Tory M.P.: "It's the most effective way the Communists have yet found of sabotaging simultaneously the Labor government and Marshall aid." Said a truck driver (and Transport Union member): "When I get down to the docks in the morning and see these silly buggers striking at the gates...
...Albans, founded by monks in 948, is one of England's oldest schools (St. Peter's, York, founded in the 6th Century, is generally regarded as the oldest). Long out-glittered by Eton and Harrow, St. Albans has kept to its modest tradition of service to the boys of the town...
With TED POSTON, ALVIN DAVIS, IRVING LIEBERMAN, ARTHUR SCHIFF,* BENNETT SCHIFF,* PETER J. MCELROY, JOSEPH KAHN, WM. GREAVES, HARRY SWIRSKY, and EDMOND JALENKO...
Last week Peter J. McGuinness, 59, suffered a heart attack, died. When his funeral procession moved slowly down Greenpernt's streets, stores were closed, windows were draped in black, flags flew at half-mast, and thousands lined the curbs to bid him a silent farewell...
...Howdy, looking more like Pinocchio and less like Mortimer Snerd, was joined to the old voice. "I think your new face is beautiful," wrote one little admirer. But youngsters who are suffering through television's growing pains will have their loyalties severely strained this week when Peter Pixie, a new property of Puppeteer Paris, turns up on a rival station, the New York Daily News's WPIX. The old Howdy, says Paris, is "only good for kindling...