Word: potful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret airport in India, a flight of pot-bellied new U.S. air freighters settled on the runways, waddled up to the parking line, disgorged their cargo through yawning doors in their fuselages. As American airmen watched this sight last week, they caught a glimpse of a bright postwar world...
...long-simmering pot of Polish-Russian relations this week finally boiled over and spilled its lava-hot contents into the laps of Britain and the U.S. In Mos cow, Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov handed Polish Ambassador Tadeuz Romer a note: ". . . the Soviet Government has decided to sever relations with the Polish Government." Thus Polish-Russian amity ended with the first break between two members of the United Nations...
...lecture will consist largely of slides with a running commentary by "Captain Jock," who has promised to tell of some more of his more exciting experiences. The slides, in Kodachrome, run all the way from one of "Captain Jock" being carried to a cannibal's pot on a polo, to another of a very beautiful Balinese debutante, at which point the projector usually jams. "Captain Jock," who was briefly reached for comment last night, could only say that his South Sea Island trip was "very nice...
...were cooking something in boiling water and wanted to hurry, you should (a) increase the heat so the water would boil more rapidly, (b) put a cover on the pot (c) pour off some water, (d) use an airtight cooker...
...applied to this country received a somewhat tenuous endorsement, and 42 per cent called it "a vital necessity worth whatever it may cost in government control." A slightly smaller group were in favor of it "if it can be financed," while about ten per cent called it "crack-pot" and another one-tenth "dangerously totalitarian...