Word: wading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Agents of the American farmers quietly moved around among the braceros, passing the word that anyone who wanted to work could just go to a shallow place in the river and wade across. Trucks would be waiting, nobody would get in trouble, the U.S. authorities would understand...
...Grant, aged and decayed, passes out with fright at the unexpected appearance of an old friend whom he had cheated years back. Grant's hallucinatory harangues, much like the buzzing of a neurotic bumblebee, are recorded by Miss Stead in unsparing detail. To expect a reader to wade through several score pages of them is to ask too much...
Said a resident of El Fanguito last week: "When we came here, we had to wade through mud up to the knees. Munoz filled in the streets. Before he came into power, many people here lost their poor little homes because they could not pay their taxes. Now we pay no property tax. How shall I vote? For Munoz, all my life...
...unknown was the anti-inflation section. But Harry Truman was going to wade right into two of the hottest issues of the campaign: housing and high prices. His message asked for passage of the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill and most of the ten-point anti-inflation program he had put before Congress last fall, including standby authority to ration and control the prices of scarce commodities "which vitally affect . . . health and welfare...
...many people have managed to wade through the six-volume, 160,000-word report of Harry Truman's Commission on Higher Education. One who has is Robert Maynard Hutchins, chancellor of the University of Chicago. His comments, published in last week's Saturday Review of Literature, were, as usual, pungent and provocative. The commission, said he, "is confident that vices can be turned into virtues by making them larger. Its heart is in the right place; its head does not work very well...