Word: scowled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this week roared a U.S. C-54. It landed smoothly at Taipei's airfield. From the Bataan stepped General Douglas MacArthur. He was welcomed by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, whose determined face had over the years become almost as familiar to history as Douglas MacArthur's lofty scowl. MacArthur, accompanied by Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, had come to discuss the defenses of Formosa, which the U.S. is committed to guard against Red attack. Said MacArthur, shaking Chiang's hand: "How do you do, Generalissimo, it was nice of you to come down...
That brought down on Kansas City the icy scowl of the powerful North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. At its meeting three weeks ago, a special committee of the association recommended that Kansas City be dropped from its accredited list. One possible effect of such a blacklisting: Kansas City high-school credits would fall to a discount for college entrance. Quickly Kansas City appealed, said it was going to vote again on raising the school levy by 38%. The N.C.A.C.S.S. granted a three-month reprieve...
...U.M.W. in 1948 in which Judge Alan T. Goldsborough slapped the union and its boss with $1,420,000 in fines for contempt (two years before Lewis and the U.M.W. had had to pay $710,000 for contempt). Painstakingly, Morison presented the evidence that was as plain as the scowl on Lewis' face: the mines were not operating; there really was a strike. Looking for evidence that was not so plain but more relevant to the case, Morison subpoenaed Union Leader John Owens to appear with records of wires and telephone conversations from U.M.W.'s Washington headquarters...