Word: poured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other PBH workers are currently engaged in preparations for the series of alphabetized Freshman teas which will be inaugurated next Monday at the Brooks House. Faculty wives will pour...
...three o'clock in the afternoon and above the swirling storm the sun was shining. Yet the plane wing, which seconds before I had watched flap like a bird's wing, no longer was visible. The shriek of the wind drowned out the engines. Water began to pour in through the roof and sides...
...judge by the various commencement utterances ... Americans have only one religion: devotion to democracy. They extol its virtues, are apprehensive about the perils to which it is exposed, pour maledictions upon its foes, rededicate themselves periodically to its purposes and claim unconditioned validity for its ideals...
...favorite form of seduction.... The plot is always the same. Come up to my room and have a drink. And whether the object is physical passion or getting your client's name into the headlines, the method is standard: to weaken their resistance with let-me-pour-you-another-one, until they open their arms or their columns to you in an alcoholic daze. Of course there will always be some ladies, and members of the working press, who bounce back regularly after each seduction, holding out their empty glasses, eager to sacrifice themselves again. . . ." The press goes...
This is one source of Hedda's power. When self-doubt stabs, she and Lolly, her redoubtable counterpart, pour on the balm. But the hand that drops the balm is also armed with claws. And Hedda's claws have grown long and sharp since she discovered her powers...