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...said he had, and the incident fitted well with Chambers' previous testimony. This was the turning point of the Hiss case. From then on, most of the committee members were convinced that Hiss was lying. After Chambers had produced the microfilms of State Department documents from his famed pumpkin and the Justice Department was fighting with the committee for possession of this new evidence, Nixon-on his way to Panama-hurried back by plane and Coast Guard cutter...
...evidence of the old Ford, the Oriental rugs, the Woodstock typewriter on which some of the secret telegrams were typed, the Leica camera with which the rest were photographed, the Hiss-written memos and bills of sale, the pumpkin films,* the prothonotary warbler, and many other items is overwhelming cumulative evidence of Hiss's guilt...
Rivals. One of Malan's school friends was a long-legged Boer farm boy named Jan Christian Smuts. The Smutses and the Malans were neighbors, and twice each month Jannie Smuts and Danie Malan sat down together to polish off a huge Sunday dinner of pumpkin and mutton. A brilliant scholar and athlete, young Smuts went off to Stellensbosch University to study poetry and philosophy. Four years later, Danie came plodding after. He was barely 20, yet he had already developed a double chin. Smuts met him at the station with a cry of "Dear Danie," tapped...
...Girl at the Fountain. After a siege of maltreatment in a foster home in Modesto ("I was a scullery maid, a cheap Cinderella with no hope of a pumpkin"), Lana moved to Los Angeles with her mother, who went to work in a beauty parlor. One sunny morning, when Lana was a lush 15, she sneaked out of Hollywood High School to play hooky at a Sunset Boulevard soda fountain. A man walked up and said: "How would you like to be in pictures?" Surprisingly, the proposition was on the level...
...will have a chance to see the winners when the Army sends the show on a nationwide tour beginning at the Pentagon in January. They should get their biggest satisfaction out of the first-prize cartoon by Pfc. Robert Miller of Philadelphia. Miller's prizewinner: a series of pumpkin-simple caricatures of the Army face, from private to general, in which the privates clearly come off best. Says Artist Miller: "It expresses kind of the way I feel about the Army...