Word: rasped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter on the level of personalities, but he did have a withering phrase for any officer or civilian who would give away classified information: reprehensible insubordination. To a military man like Ike, it was the unpardonable sin. The soul of an Army, he said, emphasizing "soul" in an irritated rasp, is the certainty that everyone responds to the laws of the land and to the orders of superiors, all the way up to the Commander in Chief. As any military man should know, the Army has its own recourse for soldiers who feel their superiors are derelict of duty...
...Racketeer Frank Costello, 63, got the bill. Federal Judge John F.X. McGohey sentenced him to five years, $30,000 in fines. Costello, his eyes red from weeping, had already indicated that he had learned his lesson-or, at least, one lesson. "Remember this," he told reporters in his familiar rasp. "When you spend money, spend cash and don't spend checks...
...rasp slipped into Georges Bidault's calm voice. "Indo-China is not one of the preconditions [to EDC approval]. If you want to construe it to be one, then you must replace me as a Foreign Minister...
...early '40s, Ed Gardiner was the owner and star of a low-budget radio program called "Duffy's Tavern," and he employed his wife, Shirley Booth, to play the part of rasp-voiced Miss Duffy. The program and the marriage are no longer popular favorites; Gardiner decided to beat U.S. income takes in Puerto Rico, and Miss Booth returned to the stage...
When the summer sun blisters the Manhattan pavement and the rasp of traffic noise mounts to unbearable decibels, one of the most inviting oases-better even than an air-conditioned movie-is the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art. There, only two blocks north of towering Rockefeller Center, the visitor may walk in peace amidst birches, hornbeams and willows, linger by cool reflecting pools, or sit on convenient benches, looking at sculpture...