Word: unfolded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pattern of his operation began to unfold. A cop dressed as a workman bumped into Rubino one day in a corridor near a dynamo room. "What are you doing here?" the peddler demanded. The 'cop mumbled: "I'm looking for the mess hall." Rubino growled: "Well, this isn't it, so get the hell out of here." The cop left but returned to spy later. Rubino met from three to seven customers a day, walked them around the hospital grounds to the powerhouse and left the buyer holding the dog's leash, while he scuttled inside...
...Class Day Committee yesterday cleared the way for the public showing of the new film during the intermission of the Band and Glee Club Concert, Wednesday evening, June 20. A full-sized screen, will unfold from the awning covering the steps to Memorial Church...
When Flair magazine came out last winter, it inspired a host of wisecracks and a clutch of New Yorker cartoons about the hole in its cover, the chopped-up pages and accordion inserts that unfold for a foot or more. But Flair's stories on such things as Americans in Paris, fox hunting, and how the Duchess of Windsor decorates her house failed to Stir up the same interest among readers or advertisers. Publisher Gardner (Look, Quick) Cowles and his wife, Flair Editor Fleur Cowles, who had dreamed two months ago of boosting their circulation guarantee from...
...peacetime U.S. revulsion against soldiering. The words, if not the tune, still rattled around in the heads of U.S. military leaders. They wondered how soon after the Korean job was finished they would begin to hear the refrain again. For that reason, and because it was unwise to unfold all the facts of an unpleasant situation just before an election-and because no one had any clear-cut plan anyhow-the Administration talked all around the problem last week but never got to the truth. The truth: for years to come, virtually every able-bodied young American will have...
...Sample from a recent select-the-best phrase question: "In trying to renew old recollections, we cannot unfold the whole web of our existence; we must 1) winnow the wheat from the chaff, 2) pick out the single threads, 3) scrap the flotsam and jetsam, 4) isolate the relevant factors, 5) distinguish between the warp and the woof." Students who ticked off No. 2 got it right...