Word: casting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...cast any aspersions on any professions or trades whatever. What I did say was that some professions-writers, engineers, inventors, chemists, etc.-enjoy the privilege of having to create new things in the course of their daily work if they want to survive, while others, whose useful work moves along more routine lines, like that of streetcar conductors or bookkeepers-the word "storekeeper" never was mentioned-were less fortunate in that respect. As a matter of fact, I think storekeepers do a lot of constructive and educational work. Words like "insurance peddlers" are strange to my vocabulary. I believe lawyers...
Unity. The labor vote was an affirmative vote. But many a vote for Roosevelt had been cast negatively, by men whose doubts of him had been exceeded only by their doubts of Willkie and the Republican leadership. Further, millions of votes had been cast against him, and perhaps a majority of those Willkie votes had been cast against Roosevelt, not for Willkie...
...State Department a queer situation obtained. Many a Roosevelt voter had in his heart cast half of his ballot for Secretary Cordell Hull. The Willkie campaign had courted Mr. Hull, would perhaps have asked him to stay on for a period. But the long friction between Hull and Under Secretary Sumner Welles could not go on indefinitely. Furthermore, Roosevelt was expected, after the usual six-to-nine-month period of hesitation, to nudge Hull out for a younger, more aggressive man. Yet it was said that the grave old Tennessean would never leave his post, if Welles...
...soon as swelling disappears, a soft plaster cast is wound directly over both leg and pins. Several days later, depending on the type of fracture, the patient is fitted with a "walking iron"-a narrow, U-shaped strip of iron about one and a half feet long. The base slips under the instep like a stirrup, the two long arms are bound with more plaster up either side...
BUDAPEST--Greek planes believed Brindisi, important Italian port and base on the Adriatic, today and damaged the railroad station and tracks, according to a Greek radio bread cast received here tonight...