Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latinos who had looked to the arms bill to solve their problems now knew that the program proposed to put guns in the hands of signers of the North Atlantic pact, as well as five other strategic countries outside the Hemisphere. Awareness that the U.S. could not arm the whole world at the same time did not soften the blow. It only aggravated the soreness already caused by U.S. preoccupation with other areas as evidenced by EGA. One attache blurted out: "We Latin Americans have been getting the leftovers ever since the end of the war. Now it seems that...
Arturo Toscanini, 82, slipped getting into his bathtub, landed hard, put off his trip to Italy for three weeks...
...Merriam-Webster editors started collecting words in common use right after their last edition came out. Whenever they spotted or heard a new one, they immediately filled out a "citation slip" on it. Words that didn't get enough slips (e.g., car park) were put back in the file again, perhaps for next time...
...others he had in mind, but the few finished pictures he did produce were apt to be dim, moody echoes of the Renaissance masters. In view of all this, many an art critic wondered if he could be considered a true painter at all. When Novelist Gertrude Stein once put that harsh question to him, Berard fell on his knees protesting, "Yes, oh, yes!" Last week, a Manhattan gallery staged a posthumous show of his portraits that helped to tip the decision a little in Bébé's favor...
...Busch, "with the speed and directness of an arrow." As a moppet he entertained his family with such epic poems as The Mouse's Party, which ran to 142 stanzas because its author was out to outdo The Ancient Mariner. At Brooklyn's Polytechnic Prep, he put out a handwritten gossip sheet called The Daily Glonk. But he did not really want to be an editor; he yearned to be another Ty Cobb. Though an inept ballplayer, Hadden modeled his batting style and his energetic walking style after his hero, and affected a side-of-the-mouth Brooklyn...