Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next, instead of going ahead with the formation of a huge Cabinet, Premier Konoye called together these three men to clarify their platform. Every plank was new as fresh-cut pine. They agreed to strengthen ties with the Axis; to shake up Japan's diplomatic personnel (i. e., inject a few chauvinists) ; to establish a "zone of stability in East Asia" (i. e., Japan's sphere of exclusive domination) ; to re-examine Japanese-Soviet relations, with a view to possible rapprochement; to end "reliance" on the U. S. and Great Britain; to leave political-party members...
Nominee Willkie, after a dash home, headed downtown for Commonwealth & Southern Corp.'s offices at 20 Pine St., just around the corner from Wall Street. If Democrats expected him to play down his utility connections at that late date, they guessed wrong. Candidate Willkie continued to act as one who had nothing to be ashamed of, even as if his business were a campaign asset. For his first week of politicking he made his old office his headquarters. He put off the effective date of his resignation from his $75,000 C. & S. presidency until this week (July...
...devout Negro William Grant Still, who inscribed his score: "Humble thanks to God, the source of inspiration." Composer Still's inspiration often ran to obvious, ear-catching effects, but it kept pace with Mrs. Biddle's ballad: an evocation of Negroes gathering in a pine clearing after the white folks have lynched their man and gone. A tall, handsome Negro, Louise Burge, let out a big, warm voice in the lament of the lynched man's mother...
Tennessee-born Miss Burge, head of the music department at the Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College at Pine Bluff, Ark., owed her Stadium engagement-her bigtime debut-to a selling talk by President Alain Locke of Howard University, whence she graduated...
...first royal refugees to the New World last week said good-by to their princesses at Halifax. Immediately, butter-cheeked Juliana, Crown Princess of The Netherlands, and her tiny children-Princess Beatrix, aged 2½, and Princess Irene, aged 9 months-were whisked off to a pine-shadowed log chateau in the Laurentians. Juliana was bitter. Said she: "Never speak to me of pity. Pity is for the weak, and our terrible fate has made us stronger than ever before...