Word: sheaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rising queenmaker, Nellie Tayloe Ross, who runs the U.S. Mint, Minnesota's Eugenie Anderson, new ambassador to Denmark-to celebrate another Democratic victory in "the making. Between the diamondback terrapin soup and the baked seafood canape, White House Press Secretary Charlie Ross approached the dais with a sheaf of figures in hand. Harry Truman rose, grinning, and without waiting for the formality of an introduction, said into the mike: "I have some early election returns. Lehman and O'Dwyer seem to be winning. It looks pretty good." After the Boston ice cream pie had been cleared away...
...Night Flight, Pilot-Novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's fine story of commercial aviation, an airline manager gazes gloomily out at a heavy night, in futile search for a lost plane. Absently he fingers a sheaf of teletypes on his desk. "These are the paths death takes to enter here," he says, "messages that have lost their meaning...
Heady Glow. As the nuptials drew near, rings were chosen, dresses fitted, attendants picked, bachelor dinners and bridal showers enjoyed. Meanwhile, there was the business of arranging for a marriage ceremony and the signing of a sheaf of papers, all undertaken in a heady glow of anticipation...
Donning civilian tweeds, Crommelin pocketed a sheaf of papers, and went downtown to get in touch with the three wire services (the A.P. man said they rendezvoused in "a shadowy corridor"). To each man Crommelin handed over a confidential letter to Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews from Vice Admiral Gerald F. Bogan, commander of the Pacific's First Task Fleet. Crommelin insisted only that his own identity be kept secret for the moment: he wanted nothing to detract from the impact of the letter itself...
...crowd stamped first into the "25 Dollar Room" to grab up the bargains-small pictures signed by such big-name summer residents as Reginald Marsh, Clay Bartlett and John Koch. Summertime Vermonter Paul Sample had forsaken landscapes to paint a dingy backstage ballet scene; John Taylor Arms sent a sheaf of his architectural etchings. But such relatively individualistic efforts were exceptions to the show as a whole...