Word: spading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spade of history last week turned up a hitherto secret set of facts. For biographers of Internationalist Franklin Roosevelt, the great salesman of the United Nations Organization idea, the facts were somewhat awkward. They showed that when he co-authored the Atlantic Charter with Winston Churchill in August 1941, Franklin Roosevelt...
...three, the Iliad seemed to have the most immediate influence on TIME writing. Homer's "wine-dark sea" and "far-darting Apollo" were the parents of "jampacked bowl," "spade-bearded anthropologist" and many another space-saving phrase in TIME...
...afraid of the bishop's popularity to go too far. His thugs smashed the windows in the bishop's palace, ruined the Fischers' radish crop. But when the 'Gauleiter finally stormed over to the island in person, Paul killed him with a spade. "[Now] they will come for all of us," sighed the bishop. "Pray, bishop . . . ask for a miracle," cried the Frenchman...
...editor can and does call a Democrat a Democrat, a Baptist a Baptist, sometimes even a spade a spade-but he has to be very careful whom he calls a Communist. Many a Communist-at-heart takes care not to be one officially. What many an editor would like to know: is it libelous per se to call a man a Communist? To the growing body of legal opinion, on which a solid answer will be based some day, two noteworthy items were added last week...
...Play showed three main differences from bridge: 1) South, claiming the contract at 500, declared spades trump (in Check, the trump is not announced until the contract is claimed); 2) South, leading the Spade ace won East's singleton Spade ace (in Check, the first ace wins the second; the first king, the second king, etc.), 3) honor cards taken in tricks counted in point score (in Check, aces and tens count ten, kings and queens, 5.; jacks, no count...