Word: grabbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundreds of miles from the China coast where she had begun her search. There the two Englishwomen set up an inn for mule drivers. Gladys' first Chinese was a chant: "We have no bugs, we have no fleas. Good, good, good-come, come, come." Her job was to grab the leading mule of a caravan and lead him into the courtyard. After the mules were fed, their drivers became willing listeners to simple Bible stories...
...unconvincing either as a satire of parish culture or as a psychological study of the child. An improbable ending, in which the boy showers a group of gaffers in a park with the pilfered church money and the old men have a sort of mystical experience as they grab for the coins, is contrived and hopelessly out of tune with the rest of the story. There are also two failures, only one of which seems intentional, to sell properly the "et cum spiritu tuo" response of the Mass. Kilty is a better actor than writer...
...permanent at levels up to 90%. Furthermore, the Secretary was "authorized" to support any other commodity he wanted. Even perishable fruit & vegetables will get some of his bounty-the bill set aside approximately $100 million a year from custom revenues so that truck farmers could get in on the grab. ^ Farmers had long expressed dissatisfaction with the old parity 1909-14 base period. The bill provided a new parity formula, based on a time of even greater farm prosperity-the past ten years. To make this even more attractive, the concocters provided that federal wartime subsidies (paid to keep consumer...
When the Reader's Digest (circ. 16,000,000) decided to run Columnist Billy Rose's autobiography, Wine, Women and Words, in some of its foreign editions, it ran smack against a language barrier. Who could manage to translate what Rose himself called "grab-bag grammar and tipsy tavernacular...
...individually he is counting on the aid of Win Knowlton at right wing and Bern Floring at center half. These two men have looked about the best in Guyda's grab-bag workouts...