Word: poured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Counted on Comando Unico's side were party politicians, exiles in Montevideo, important bodies of troops both in Buenos Aires and the provinces. The Navy steamed into the harbor. Communists, Socialists, Radicals were eager to pour their multitudes into the streets. Even the Catholic Church, which has favored authoritarianism on the clerical Franco model, was turning against the militarists. Several high clerics, many humble priests were warning good Catholics to shun them...
...newspapers of all Europe pour into Sweden within a few days after publication-so another of Scott's jobs is to follow what the people of each nation are themselves being told about how the war is going. He reads papers in German, Russian and Swedish himself-has a multilingual secretary read those in Finnish, Danish and Norwegian, telling him the high spots and translating the full text of the most important items. And very soon he plans a trip to distracted Finland to see for himself what is happening to that unhappy land...
...faculty.* > Hutchins proposed that faculty rank be abolished as dividing the university community. This would supplement the recent Chicago reform whereby faculty contracts will be gradually rewritten 1) to command every professor's full time for eleven months a year at an improved salary, 2) to pour into the University's coffers whatever money facultymen earn from lecturing, broadcasting, publishing outside the University. But Hutchins will let a Nobel Prizewinner keep his swag; he regards that (sometimes as much as $46,000) as "unearned income." > Hutchins announced the election to a University Vice-Presidency of Wilbur Cheney Munnecke...
...front-the Caribbean. When Frances Langford gets there the next week or so, she can expect the same kind of admiration she has inspired in homesick doughboys from Alaska to Sicily. No other female entertainer in World War II can touch it. "She knows just how much sex to pour and still be dignified," is Bob Hope's explanation. General Eisenhower, who has misgivings about women entertainers at the front, was so moved by her impact upon his North African troops that he thanked her warmly, "especially for the way you've conducted yourself...
...release of the Senate's Truman Committee report, a measured, figure-crammed study of "Petroleum Matters," will this week pour oil on the blaze from a new quarter. For it recommends that in this matter "basic policy determinations must be made by the Congress...