Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days gone by, at such dinner speeches, there was usually before Franklin Roosevelt's place a row of short flower vases. Behind the vases stood several Old-Fashioned cocktails, which he would sip during dinner...
This week, the Brookings Institution, famed for its economic studies, put out its own carefully considered estimate of postwar U.S. income, in an attempt to clear up the confusion. Net result was to add to the confusion, by stirring up a first-class row among economists. For one thing, the Brookings estimate was $123 billion, substantially lower than the most popular $140 billion boxcar figure which businessmen roll off their tongues. But the Brookings Institution then went on, in a brochure titled Postwar National Income, to whack all other postwar estimators as, in effect, so many dizzards, noodles, lackwits...
Keystone of the "Harlow wing" or whatever else it might be called, is an unbalanced line, with only a guard and an end playing to the left of the center. The blocking back stands exactly behind the inside tackle, while the other three line up in a row about three yards behind the line. the fullback and tallback are behind the right and left guards, respectively, with the wingback directly to the rear of the right...
Eight standing, eight kneeling, 16 policemen aimed well, fired. A straight row of white cut stitched across Caruso's back. The back of his head dissolved. For a still moment the courtyard belonged to death. Then there was a brief babel as photographers rushed in for closeups...
...there was nothing to distinguish this meeting from a dozen others. In the assembly hall a blue and white banner over the platform bore the legend "love and security." A large likeness of the late, great Dr. Sun Yat-sen stared down with brooding eyes at bored back-row members who read newspapers through Chiang Kai-shek's opening speech. Unsuspecting General Ho Ying-chin made an ominous report on Japanese advances, conditions in the Chinese Army. Suddenly it, happened. General Ho reeled under a blistering barrage of critical questions...