Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This stubborn behavior roused the Republican New York Herald Tribune; it urged House leaders to have their heads examined. Snorted the New York Times: "The most one can say is that they were performing a sort of sacred dance before the altar of what they took to be political expedience. . . . Their gyrations were irresponsible, eccentric and foolish...
...boss. Union organizers scampered to Hilo, tried to persuade the 4,000 secessionists to reconsider their stand. But at week's end the rebels were standing firm, and the revolt in the canebrakes threatened to spread. If it did, Harry Bridges might be in for an entirely different sort of war from the one he had planned for Hawaii...
...door. When British Sculptor Henry Moore was commissioned to carve a Madonna and Child for a church, he resolved to "meet the subject half way," as he put it, by substituting a limited realism for his usual smooth abstraction. The compromise was recognizably human, in a streamlined sort of fashion, but inertly bland as stone could...
...such a book can be published without revealing any real secrets stresses a verbal warning by Dr. Rosebury: "Bacterial warfare can be developed by any nation, large or small, rich or poor, to which the resources of modern bacteriology are available." "Resources," in this case, can mean almost any sort of laboratory...
...drop-forge worker is a peculiar sort of Joe. ... He makes forgings, eight, nine or ten hours a shift. After work he makes them in the tavern, he makes them at the dinner table, in fact, he makes them wherever and whenever he can get anyone to listen-and he always makes them better than the other...