Word: pots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisis was the question of Canadian Army reinforcements. Evidence had been piling up that reinforcements for Canada's overseas army were inadequate. In Calgary, Brigadier P. R. Shields, home after five years of fighting, said that when he left England "they were scraping the bottom of the pot." The Montreal Gazette frontpaged a letter from a soldier wounded on the Western Front: "... all the politicians lie who say that reinforcements are adequate. ..." From London came word that the First Canadian Army, already reinforced by Poles, Czechs, Dutch and Belgians, was being further reinforced by U.S. troops...
...Boiling Pot. Said Frederick Duncalf, faculty committee head, "The fat's in the fire now." "It's hell," agreed alumni spokesman Robert Bobbitt. On the Texas campus, 6,000 irate students promptly cut classes, shouldered banners proclaiming NO CLASSES TILL RAINEY; RATS AND REGENTS LEAVE A SINKING SHIP. Dark-clad and solemn, they marched in a parade twelve blocks long to plant in the Capitol rotunda a crepe-draped coffin labeled "Academic Freedom...
...requesting that he explain in open meeting the basis of the Board's decision. If not, the students would "sit down" on the Capitol lawn. Said Coke, "I've been around the campfire long enough to know you can't drink coffee out of a boiling pot...
Sandwiched in with his booming points was many a Moses pot shot...
...staff it with experienced newsgatherers. Last week, tired, ailing, beaten for the first time, she announced she would shut up shop on Armistice Day. Said she: "I was having a talk with my croaker the other day. He says, 'Florabel, your ticker ain't worth a pot in hell-you take it easy.' So I guess I will...