Word: tartaric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign expenditures pried into Sidney Hillman's P.A.C. last week, searching for some legal misstep which would give the committee a chance to crack down hard. But after diligent search through the woodpile, all they found was Sidney Hillman. And in him, they discovered, they had caught a Tartar. His political footwork made most of them look like stumblebums...
...Passes. The two passes at whose entrances the Russians stood - the Jablonica and Tartar Passes southwestward into Czechoslovakia - are not so rugged and impregnable as some of the territory around Cassino, for example. The passes rise only to about 3,000 ft., above wan dering valleys. The mountains are rolling rather than precipitous...
...escarole salad the playing of Götterdämmerung. Some 4,000 canaries chirped together with Italian and Hawaiian singers, against a backdrop painted by the Metropolitan Opera's Scenarist Rosa. Alpine scenes were made of 400 baskets of strawberries, nougat (for roads), sugar and tartar (for snow...
...last week Stalin gave a reception for three Greek Orthodox Metropolitans, Leningrad's Bishop Alexis, the Ukraine's Archbishop Nicholas, Moscow's 76-year-old Bishop Sergei, who was brought back for the occasion by special train from Mohammedan Tartar Republic, where for two years he has been in genteel exile...
...garrulous, gravel-cheeked woman of enormous appetites had a hand in Russia's afflictions. If Catherine the Great (1729-96) had not urged Germans to colonize her Tartar-ravaged Volga lands, there might have been no islands of Germanic peoples pocking the lower Volga-Don region, hard behind the present battle line...