Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seat at his little mahogany table in front of the assembled newsmen. At his right, as is customary at Acheson's weekly press conferences, sat big, beefy State Department Press Officer Lincoln White. The Secretary wanted to get something off his chest-and what he had to say was almost as surprising to the press corps as a new shift in U.S. foreign policy. He wanted to apologize for having been rude...
...Brother!" The day is coming soon, say some Hollywood seers, when Elizabeth may get fed up with being watched. They already see signs that she is trying her wings: she is tired of her Cadillac and wants another; she wants a mink stole; in Paris last winter she went on a clothes-buying spree and overdrew her checking account; in London she snapped back at her teacher, "Wouldn't it be nice if Miss Anderson dropped right through the floor...
Mystic Meditations. He describes the praying mantis, "or, as they say in Provence, lou Prégo Diéou, the Pray-to-God," with keen observation and lively imagination. "Her long pale green wings, like spreading veils, her head raised heavenwards, her folded arms, crossed upon her breast, are in fact a sort of travesty of a nun in ecstasy." The travesty is complete when the mantis makes her kill: "With the sharpness of a spring, the toothed forearm folds back on the toothed upper arm; and the insect is caught between the blades of the double saw . . . Thereupon...
...wholly devoid of charm . . . They seek one another and fly precipitately the moment they touch, as though they had mutually burnt their fingers ... At times there is a violent tumult; a confused mass of swarming legs, snapping claws, tails curving and clashing, threatening or fondling, it is hard to say which. All, large and small alike, take part in the brawl; it might be a battle to the death, a general massacre; and it is just a wanton frolic...
...C.I.O. Steelworkers had already had their say on wages and pensions before Harry Truman's steel fact-finding board. In Manhattan's federal court house last week, it was management's turn. Up before the three-man board stood Inland Steel Co.'s tall, square-jawed President Clarence B. Randall. In crisp words he made the steelmen's case against the theory of wage-fixing by government. Said...