Word: straws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last-straw department--Professor Woods surreptitiously sleeping through one of Professor Mimno's lectures. It wasn't told to me, I only heard...
...insult. . . . I predict that it is the straw that will break the back of the unfair and inequitable wages and prices camel of the Government." The speaker was the usually conservative David B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. His subject: the decision of a special railway emergency board, affecting 400,000 members of his and four other operating railroad unions...
Young (38), straw-haired Lord Burghley should fit the office well. He is a scion of the brilliant house of Cecil, which has furnished Britain with some of its most distinguished statesmen and soldiers. His father is the Marquess of Exeter; from him some day Lord Burghley will inherit enormous estates in Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire. His wife is a sister of the Duchess of Gloucester. Lord Burghley looks like someone disguised as a handsome, sporting Englishman, but his is no masquerade...
...Lived on Ration C ; slept on straw in Telegma; shot at Nazis over La Hencha bridge...
...Sometimes this is too goddam much for me," he said, spitting out a straw...