Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ickes' most interesting revelation-how he tried to help Roosevelt fire Secretary of War Harry Woodring-also shed considerable light on the character of his boss...
...eating 7,000 tons of harmful insects. Others recalled the rook's niche in British song & story. Cawed the poet laureate, John Masefield himself: "For how long is this proposed slaughter to continue? Who is to check the killers? Who is to decide when enough blood has been shed...
Clement Attlee and Ernie Bevin dissociated themselves from this dog-in-the-manger attitude-but they had both been angry when France (which shed its Socialist Premier for a Popular Republican) devalued its currency and permitted free trade in the franc. For one reason, it violated British Socialists' notions of a properly managed currency, and it hurt them worse to discover that it did not seem to hurt France...
...well run for two years. All the same, some first-nighters found it the least enjoyable Bea Lillie show in a long time. Not that it is really bad or botched: it is all thoroughly professional. It is also thoroughly unoriginal and unexhilarating; it not only fails to shed light of its own, but even dims the cherished Lillie luster...
Last week an old man called "Barba," a patriarch of the mountain town of Kalav-ryta, sighed and said: "The blood my family has shed in Kalavryta would fill three whole barrels...