Word: veined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Continuing in the same vein, they defended the use of mechanical dish-washers in the Union kitchen, saying that "they completely sterilize all the dishes which are put through them," and they save as well...
...getting away to a certain extent from the narrowness of Les Six and the ragtime of the twenties, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable piece of music as well. It starts out with a pompous Handelian little theme, which is quickly broken down, so my informant says, into a vein of jocosity, busy chattering strings, and short reiterated little figures, (a trick used very successfully by Strawinsky in his recent symphony), And throughout the work there is a good deal of musical wisecracking--banal tunes, whizzing themes, sound effects, changes in mood and tempo, all contributing to a decidedly comic...
...went-Oak Harbor, Sandusky, Elyria, plowing the ground, sometimes stony, sometimes soft. Everywhere he had been phrasemaking, rather than speechmaking: "When you have unemployment you have cut the jugular vein of America. . . . People say we ought not to change horses in the middle of the stream...
...drawn-out affair of bombings and blockade, the Southern Theatre might well be the deciding area of combat. Like wolves and dogs which instinctively spring for adversaries' throats, the strategists of the Axis last week seemed to be baring their fangs for the British Empire's jugular vein at its two most exposed spots. Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop's visit to Rome (see p. 29) paved the way for action against Gibraltar, and the Italian drive in Egypt was headed straight for Suez...
...message to Congress last week, the President outlined his National Defense Advisory Commission's plans to get first call on industrial facilities for defense. Theme of these plans (and of all the War & Navy Departments' industrial mobilization charts) was voluntary cooperation. Nevertheless a hard vein ran through the Commission's silky words ("There should be ... honest and sincere desire to cooperate ... in producing what is called for, and on time, without profiteering; to assume some risks . . . rather than attempting to shift all such risks to the Government . . ."). Formulator of these standards was not Mr. Roosevelt, but business...