Word: sorrell
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...Washington loves a fight more than the Federal Communications Commission's sorrel-topped, razor-tongued chairman, James Lawrence Fly. This week, having easily won Senate confirmation of his reappointment to FCC, Chairman Fly could look forward happily to another seven years of hard work and hard fights...
...people too lazy to grow celtuce, botanists had a word of advice: eat weeds, some of which also run the vitamin gamut. Some of the more nutritious: dandelion, stinging nettle, dock, milkweed, marsh marigold, wild mustard, sorrel, purslane...
Professional. Two zeros in two innings only got Boss Pew's blood up. The turning tide of 1937's Supreme Court reorganization bill, the sit-down strikes, 1938's purge campaign, stiffened his sinews. For Governor of Pennsylvania Mr. Pew settled on an undersized, sorrel-shagged, boom-voiced judge from the hard coal fields, Arthur H. James, the Welsh "breaker...
When Stassen ran for Governor in 1938, against Farmer-Laborite Elmer Austin Benson, the red hair on his big head had begun to turn sorrel and recede. By that time he had perfected all he had learned about politics in college. To his natural informality was added a slow grin which revealed one snagged, gold-edged front tooth. Backed by Minnesota progressives and a rowdy, pistol-shooting, horse-riding organization from the South St. Paul stockyards, called the "Hook 'Em Cows," he won the election, became the youngest Governor...
Arthur H. James, 55, of Pennsylvania, sawed-off, sorrel-topped corporation lawyer and Superior Court judge, up from a coal mine boss...