Word: tobaccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were the chief points on which the opposition had trained its sights. But no heavy barrage was fired. Only one Senator took careful aim. Pointing a long, tobacco-stained finger, Colorado's big (200 lb.), bald Republican Eugene Donald Millikin lined up his target: the use of U.S. armed forces under the Charter. He asked: what control would the U.S. retain over its share of an international armed force? Could the U.S. reserve to itself decision over where and how to use its forces? Senator Millikin's close questioning of John Foster Dulles, the Committee...
...payment: by 1892 the U.S. Government had paid a quarter of a million dollars in damages. But even this left 2,298 horses still unpaid for. The case wore on, collecting exotic language. Original claimants had names like Dewey Distribution, Take Her Leggins Off, Lizzie Eagle Louse, Henry Tobacco Sack and George No Belly. Their heirs had names like Susie Sounding Side, Johnson Scabby Face, Bennie Bear Lies Down...
Picasso was delighted. He admired the K rations and the Velvet tobacco, kissed van Sant on both cheeks...
Conway, Britain's famed training ship for officers of the merchant fleet. Aboard, he was confronted by a "ruddy, tanned and dirty old hand" who had reached the awe-inspiring age of 1 6. Squirting tobacco juice through his broken teeth and swell ing out "a chest like a rag-bag," the vet eran questioned the newcomer: "Ah, chum; what's your name?" He was told it was John Masefield. "What's your father?" "I haven't got one." "What's your mother, then?" "I haven...
Murder, He Says (Paramount) roughly-very roughly indeed-combines the most easily laughable aspects of Tobacco Road, Arsenic & Old Lace, and the ghoul-infested mansions of .Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons. It tells of one difficult evening in the life of a Trotter Poll question-asker (Fred MacMurray) who is investigating refrigeration among rubes and the mysterious disappearance of a fellow-Trotter. Startled when a luminous dog tears through the night woods, he runs afoul of the local Jukes family, whose name is Fleagle. While he twitches around among cattle skulls in the uninviting Fleagle living room, and snags...