Word: potted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tempest in a Pot. As mayor, Walker soon reduced his onerous new job to an easygoing system. "Walker would rise about 10 o'clock and glance at the headlines," writes Fowler. "After three or four minutes with the big type, Walker . . . would . . . retire again . . . With pillows propped behind his back, he would make telephone calls, and . . . re-examine the newspaper headlines." Around noon he would dress and go out. He got a lot of mail, but, says Fowler, ,he "seldom read any of the thousands of letters sent to him over the years . . . seldom replied to those...
...sneak to get votes," snapped Jimmy, "then count me out right now." All went as gaily as a magic-carpet ride-until the Crash. In 1931, the New York state legis- lature voted an investigation of charges of corruption in the Walker administration. "A tempest in a pot," said Jimmy...
...Eighth Army "Desert Rats," a melting pot of Britons, Australians, Indians, Free French, New Zealanders and others, were never defeated in battle after Monty took command. His method sounded simple: refuse to move until every detail of the battle plan is in place; then slug it out to the finish-chiefly with line bucks but with an end run when necessary. To a flashy quarterback like Rommel, such tactics must have seemed relentlessly dull, relentlessly successful...
Provost Buck has announced that scholarship funds will be allocated to pay the tuition for the DP's; John W. Holt, Director of Student Employment, has guaranteed them jobs; and the Student Council has turned over $1000 and the Liberal Union about $100 to swell the general expenses pot...
...Communist Deputy Kapun strikingly echoed Nazi sentiments while discussing the question of returning Jewish property which the Nazis had stolen. (Despite promises, the Communists have returned only a fraction of such property.) Said Comrade Kapun: "Before the war, the Jews had Germanized themselves . . . We cannot trust their patriotism. The pot in which food was spoiled once smells bad even though it has been thoroughly cleansed...