Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finished his coffee and walked out, glancing--for lack of a worthier subject--at a passing Yard cop who had shed his coat in deference to the early June heat. The sight of the shirt-sleeved Yard cop made Vag realize that it was going to be a hot summer. With a nine o'clock every morning, and each class meeting four times a week, summer school was going to be more work than fun. Vag wondered if it were worth the effort. He ran his fingers through his thinning hair and decided that...
...Pierre Jacquet, turned up in a natty sports suit and floppy hat with two duck feathers stuck in it. Erich Tilgenkamp, the Swiss entry, looked trim and sharp in his checkered cap, despite an anguished evening spent searching for his balloon, which had somehow got lost in the freight shed of Paris' Gare...
...worker" when he asked for guerrilla. Finally, she put two t's in maggoty, and was spelled down. When Mattie Lou got it right, and zipped off chlorophyll to clinch the championship, tears came to Sonya's eyes. Schoolmarm Phillips told her: "Sugar, don't you shed a tear, because you did so sweet." Champion Mattie Lou was crying a little, too. Said she to Sonya: "I wish you had won instead...
...Life. Peggy's year-round citizens make their living from the sea, fishing for lobsters, herring, mackerel, salmon. Each fisherman owns his own home, his boat and fishing gear and most of them have a cow and an ox in the barn, a pig in the shed, a small garden behind the house. Among the rocks back of the Cove are a few grassy plots where cattle and oxen feed and small hay crops are raised. Hay is cut with a scythe, raked by women & children, hauled to the barn by oxen which move at about the same gait...
...looks at German films for the answer to a hard historical question: Why did the Germans so readily accept Hitler? "Their strange preparedness for the Nazi creed," Dr. Kracauer has concluded, "must have originated in psychological dispositions stronger than any ideological scruples. The films of the pre-Hitler period shed no small light on the psychological situation...