Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientific enough for the great fact collector. Darwin wrote to his friend and portraitist Thomas Woolner, begging the advice of "a cautious and careful English artist" on the subject. Thanks to him, Darwin was able to state that "with English women, blushing does not extend beneath the neck and upper part of the chest," but Woolner got little credit for his work on this scientific milestone...
...Dissenter. In many ways his 26 years in the upper house were sad and unproductive. He was a dissenter during Republican administrations. When Franklin Roosevelt came to power he remained a dissenter-torn between loyalty to his party and his conservative's fury at New Deal policies. He fought them endlessly, bitterly...
...Upper-Level Lowdown. He found a lot of confused, ignorant thinking about the bomb. "The facts were circulating freely in the upper intellectual level," he recalls, "but not getting through to the people." He set out to find a program formula that would get the facts through...
...sweet little face with the upper lip lifted away from the lower in a kind of child-like perplexity, and all sorts of soft thick yellow hair tumbling down. She was all small and white, with the hands of a baby, and little baby legs and feet. But what she had that broke my heart were big staring blue eyes-the amazed eyes of a scared little girl in a crazy and ferocious world...
Churchill kept lashing out across the floor, heckling and interrupting while Bevin spoke. Cried Ernie finally: "Party spirit [has] gained the upper hand of national interest ... I have watched Mr. Churchill as a great patriot and half an hour afterward he is a party man. . . ." Snapped Churchill: "We all know that you are the only patriot in the land...