Word: rub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the questions are so loaded that a Taftman must rub his hands as he asks them. Most, however, merely cover, controversial issues which every other candidate has discussed already. No matter how Ike answers, the Taft people feel, he is bound to alienate somebody. As he plows through the list, making enemies, they believe that their candidate's chances will grow...
...coal and steel. There should be a single selling area: no tariffs, no transportation stickups, no currency restrictions, no shortages here and gluts there. All this would mean a central authority, which in turn would mean that each nation would have to yield some sovereignty. There was the rub...
...cool eternal shadow; and in the silence slipped off her wrapper to wash herself quickly at one of the deep, clear green basins, she would notice, in the bare green twilight, under the lemon leaves, that all her body was rosy, rosy and turning to gold ... And she would rub a little olive oil in her skin, and wander a moment in the dark underworld of the lemons ... laughing to herself. There was just a chance some peasant might see her. But if he did he would be more afraid of her than she of him (page...
...clockwise twist to the handle. Up the ice it came in a smooth, shallow curve. "Don't brush!" shouted McKinlay. Just before the stone came to the hog line, McKinlay yelled: "Brush now!" The soopers whisked frantically with their household-type brooms (the Scotsmen use T-shaped brooms, rub rather than sweep the ice). The stone slipped on between the two trotting sweepers, snicked the two guard stones away and came to rest plunk in the center...
...circulation, concluded that Southern New England winters can be keyed to the ferocity of November. This November was sufficiently ferocious. If Baur's theories are correct, there will be more cars frozen in, ear-muffs will continue to sell briskly, and the little men who run ski resorts will rub their chapped hands in glee...