Word: skim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, one afternoon last week, the Government was ready to bob the cat's tail. Ten minutes before a scheduled press conference was to begin, Johnston handed the wage order to Cyrus Ching, who hardly had time to skim through it before he lumbered into President Truman's press-conference room in the old State Department building. There he was joined by Mike DiSalle and his satchel. But before either had a chance to begin, a press officer let the big cat out of the bag: "Mr. DiSalle and Mr. Ching are here to discuss a wage & price...
...seldom dig into the insides of ordinary human experience, reveling in its meat and marrow, the way the old boys did. By comparison with the comic expansiveness of a Dickens or the moody intensity of a Hardy, they seem merely to be giving life a quick, light-fingered skim...
From all over the nation, from Sunshine Park, from Gulfstream, and from the waiting stalls at the glue factory, the skim of the nation's horse crop will congregate in little old Rhode Island today in honor of the start of New England's earliest racing season. Lincoln Downs is the name of the track...