Word: wadding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unruffled and competent reporter stands on the deck, at the airport, at the Secretary's elbow, with his pencil working on the wad of copy paper, his sharp eye on the crowd, on the building about to fall, on the halfback faking and spinning. The good correspondent goes overside with the troops, crawls up the ridge to the command post, cajoles himself into the bomber, bums a ride in the General's jeep. The photographer is there with his tripod, his fast-action film; he is there with a cloud filter for the dogfight in the stratosphere; there...
With its blast WPB had shot its wad. The companies at once denied the charges. Under its sky-broad Presidential decree WPB could take over the plants and put them under Government operation. This is unlikely: producing more than 30% of the entire U.S. steel supply, the two corporations are too vital to be monkeyed with by anyone but crackerjack steelmen. WPB therefore flipped the whole thing over to the Justice Department with a meek "for appropriate action." The action: suits to enjoin future violations...
...whole story." He had killed his mother too, he said. Why? He had had a bitter childhood, he wanted her money, his father mistreated her and he wanted to put her out of her pain. After she fell asleep one night, Courtney had dropped chloroform on a wad of cotton which he held over her nose until she died. Said Courtney calmly: "I had an Oedipus complex...
...Wad. In Coquitlam, B.C., one Henry Steen felt something sticky on the sole of his shoe, bent down to scrape it off, unstuck a $100 bill...
Ears. In Columbus, Ohio, a man reported to police that a stranger in a grill room had bitten off a piece of his ear. In Indianapolis, hospital physicians relieved ten-year-old James Hurt's earache by removing a wad of paper from one ear, a wad of paper, a piece of lead and an eraser from the other...