Word: pours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon went on talking about "the Red threat to America." A young man in a shabby blue suit shouted "Pour it on, Dick." The Senator said there was danger that "our precious liberties might be snatched away from us by a clever underground conspiracy." The crowd grew restless and began watching a fight between two little kids. "Stop that noise, young ones," said an elderly woman, "and let the man say his words." Then a tomato landed to the right of the speakers' platform, and the police turned about and went hustling through the crowd...
...recap job with reclaimed Republican rubber." He urged that the Department of Labor be given more funds and functions, and called for the presence of more labor representatives in "positions of key responsibility in Government." The delegates who had given Ike a tepid reception now whistled and shouted, "Pour it on, Steve." With the Stevenson speech over, the A.F.L. Executive Council recommended that federation members support Adlai Stevenson for the presidency...
...newspaper publisher, Glenn McCarthy operates on the same theory as he does when he is wildcatting for oil: if at first you don't succeed, just pour in another hundred thousand or so. Five years ago, McCarthy bought up the Citizen chain of nine neighborhood throwaways in Houston and put his theory into practice. For some time the going was rough; Citizen bill collectors went knocking on advertisers' doors the day their ads appeared. But McCarthy, undaunted, poured $1,000,000 into his chain, expanded into Houston suburbs as well as south into Texas City and the Freeport...
...remainder, it had been sent back by an error on the part of his housekeeper. I was urgently requested to keep the matter dark . . . My answer to this was to inform the Press." Soon the artistic world was in an uproar. Telegrams and cables began to pour in. Public demonstrations took place. "In Italy . . . a 24-hour strike was called, involving everyone connected with the painting industry . . . a colossal effigy . . . was constructed of soap and tallow, paraded through the streets of Florence, and ceremoniously burnt, [after which] a wreath was solemnly laid on the altar of St. John...
...think that I am never going to be shy again." With two such restrained parents, it is no wonder that "Hughie" developed an insatiable appetite for romance and popular approval, and that he spent much of his life searching for the "ideal friend"-one over whom he could pour buckets of love and "understanding...