Word: potted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president of the Moslem League, in 1916-19, 1921, pot-bellied Huq had helped to inflame Moslems with their first dream of Pakistan. But in 1943, when he lost the premiership of Bengal Province he was converted to the predominantly Hindu All-India Congress, turned like a tiger on the League and its president Mohamed Ali Jinnah...
...After an elaborate practical joke. For Christmas 1885, Hearst sent each of his professors a gift-wrapped chamber pot with the recipient's picture on the inside bottom...
...conspiracy, of Madison's two terms and the War of 1812, of the struggles of the young democracy against enemies at home & abroad. Started when Adams was still in his 40's-long before he became the cackling old cynic convinced that the world was going to pot-the work was his scholarly masterpiece and occupied what were probably his best years...
Once undergraduates thought nothing of spending a week campaigning for an entirely mythical M.P.; this year even the prankster who put the traditional chamber pot on the Martyrs' Memorial had to call attention to the fact by writing to the press...
...mans damn. And the Johnson Office, carrying forward the late Hays Office white mantle of purity, has eased up along the line, permitting an occasional breath of life to creep into a picture. Unfortunately, Girl Scouts and ex-ward bosses have crawled back into the censorship field and take pot shots at anything coming out of Hollywood in a two piece bathing suit. Significantly, the old adage about the cure being worse than the disease applies here. Witness "Duel in the Sun." Selnick's horse opera attained a thirty percent box office edge over other films once criticism had been...