Word: snaking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sight with an undulation of the roadway. Yet the bridge was strong. Heavy winds failed to shake it; but when lighter, intermittent breezes swept in from the open Sound, it was agitated by a peculiar weaving, sinuous motion that its builder said looked like the movement of a snake under a rug. Some people got seasick at once when the bridge began to sway; some enjoyed the weird sensation, high above the water, with the wind howling and the bridge throbbing as if it were alive. Its eminent designer, Leon Moisseiff, 68-year-old builder of the Manhattan, the Triborough...
...room we have very good intelligent people but by my house there are a lot of drunk men. There is a man called 'The Snake.' He sells liquor. One day he tried to make my father drunk. My mother said, 'Don't the be so dumb. We need the money for rent...
...clothesline, captioned "Save To Bring Him Down a Peg" (see cut). James Morris, 13, made a good caricature of the Reichsführer being hit on the head by a bag labeled ?, with the caption: "Make Sure You Pound Adolf." H. Rotstein, 13, used businesslike symbolism: a ?shaped snake around a swastika, captioned "It Strangles Your Enemy." Most publicized poster was 13-year-old Mary Saunders'-a woman digging in her sleeping husband's trousers, with the slogan "Dig For Victory." Ronald Sharp, 13, who filled his poster with planes, ships, soldiers, drew a Churchill-like man with...
...still farms land that he worked on as a boy, called it the iron road, the name given it by the people who followed it - "from the Great Bend of the Missouri to the banks of the Willamette, following the valleys of the Kaw, the Platte, the Sweetwater, the Snake and the lordly Columbia; fording streams . . . suffering hunger, thirst and sickness aggravated by strange diets and exposure - and leaving thousands of un marked graves beside the trail." Their trek, said McNary, was no Gov ernment project. "Land, if you had to work it, never was free. Men paid...
...other beasts, a panther, a magnificent, tame, young lion, a buffalo, a young elephant, a hyena, a dwarf hippopotamus, two little sacred pythons whose delight was to weave themselves upon his ankles. The buffalo broke loose in the hold, one of the chimpanzees piteously died. Ashore Demaison ran into snake-sorcerers, a terrific flogging scene, a yellow fever epidemic. Demaison gives such incidents their due; but he makes his less eventful passages even better...