Word: sucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose & fell in practiced intonation, while he raised a warning finger, clenched his right fist, grandly embraced Congress in widespread arms, or modestly spread his long, strong fingers against his chest in a self-effacing gesture, men & women stared seriously and intensely, many with mouths agape as if to suck in the meaning of the precious words...
...sent my wife to the garden, then I locked the back door, shut the windows and placed Jessie in the corner by the gas copper. I gave her a piece of chocolate to suck. I laid my Home Guard respirator beside me and turned on the gas. I played with Jessie and kissed her goodbye. Then I had to put on my respirator. She closed her eyes and then went limp...
...flowing style he tells how Conant, then president of Harvard University and little known in smoke-filled rooms where men suck cigars and make Presidents, was swept from his palatial office at Cambridge, Mass., and deposited in the White House by a nation "grown weary of obvious inefficiency at Washington; a leaderless people seeking leadership who turned to a man of science in one of the country's dark hours...
...your baby neurotic? Does he cry at night, suck his thumb, bang his head against the crib, wet the bed, talk or walk in his sleep? If so, he may be getting too much sleep. This conclusion has been forced on British Child Psychiatrist J. A. McCluskie, long a student of dissatisfied babies...
Since the end of the war CPA has been faced with the problem of domestic v. foreign demand for goods. While OPA lived, the problem was minor. Ceiling prices on exports left too small a margin of profit to suck any large amount of goods away from the domestic market. But with ceilings off, CPA saw trouble ahead. Most world commodity prices are 25% to 100% higher than those in the U.S. There was little to prevent nations with abundant dollar exchange from buying, at fantastic prices, the goods Americans themselves were still short of. So CPA plans to permit...