Word: spreader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...succulent starched uniform with a soft center"); the inevitable cold turkey of a head nurse ("You will not walk upon any part of the floor that has recently been polished") and a ruddy great bear ("Sister, how in Hades do you expect me to operate with this jam spreader?") of a head surgeon (James Robertson Justice...
...since 1946, she has been vice chairman of the Nebraska Republican State Central Committee. To get to political meetings on the western Nebraska plains, she has traveled by plane, car, snow sled and on horseback. Says she: "I've gone to those meetings in everything but a manure spreader...
Perhaps director Raoul Walsh considered Martin so fascinating that he wished a minimum of attention to be focused elsewhere. Martin is undoubtedly a remarkable and enigmatic character: a man who was seemingly a sincere spreader for the "little man everywhere" and yet was capable of calculating ruthlessness; one who drew people to him by his personal dynamism and then twisted and used them for his own purposes. Cagney's leonine, forceful acting paints a convincing picture of the figure who could drag a dying man onto the witness chair to further his own political ambitions...
...narrowed, and there has been no way to repair this second defect. Dr. Charles P. Bailey of Philadelphia, who developed the first operation, now has another for opening the aortic valve: he pushes piano wire into the valve through the heart, and uses it as a guide for a spreader which opens the valve...
...Lake Success, Admiral Chester Nimitz, mediator of the India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir, also took on the job of U.N. public-relations consultant, i.e., official spreader of good will. In Omaha, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews was named president of radio station WOW, Inc. In Boston, onetime Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Louis Denfeld filed his papers for the Republican nomination for governor of Massachusetts...