Word: pours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pundit Walter Lippmann and others noted that the U.S. could hardly help going to war if Russia attacked Western Europe, since U.S. troops east of the Rhine would have to be pushed aside first. But Europeans wondered whether, in that case, the U.S. would pull its troops out or pour more...
...conference been worth holding? Many an editor thought not. Addressing the annual luncheon of the Associated Press, lean Lord Rothermere, publisher of the London super-Tory Daily Mail, complained:* "We have now in Geneva gratuitously provided a platform [where] the enemies of freedom may pour out their torrents of dialectical abuse, wasting the time and wearing the patience of all men of good will...
...Down . . ." Stassen's national headquarters, which occupies the whole tenth floor of Minneapolis' Pillsbury Building, hums like a fraternity in rush week. Telephone calls pour in at the rate of 1,000 a day. In a huge mailroom, some 60 volunteers run clacking mimeograph machines, stuff envelopes, mail out an average of 300,000 letters a day. The volunteers, who work in shifts, are drawn from a pool of 700 society women, debutantes, office girls who come in after hours...
...pointless tour de force. Moderns were more apt to be impressed by the startling modernity of Wedgwood's own early designs. As the exhibition catalogue put it, "He realized the importance of what is now termed functionalism ... he insisted that lids should fit, that spouts should pour, and that handles should be comfortable to the hand...
They had to pour a new foundation, rip out and rebuild a chimney, install new floors and beams, and generally tear the place apart, outside and in. The group moved in October...