Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Congress as a whole was not in Washington, at least it was still in session-able to meet in earnest and keep an eye on Franklin Roosevelt. So Session III last week edged toward a record: by Jan. 2 it will have sat 366 days, longest session in history. Its two achievements: 1) passage of the first peacetime conscription law in U. S. history; 2) appropriation of more money ($23,000,000,000) than any peacetime Congress...
...ports there are two German, 27 Italian and a quantity of Scandinavian vessels, all seeking to stay out of Britain's reach. Mr. Cross stated perfectly openly: "I naturally cast a covetous eye on those vessels." He covets also some 300,000 U. S. tons now lying idle in port. He recalled that the U. S. saved Britain's bacon in 1918 not so much by fighting in France as by producing 3,033,000 tons of shipping (up from 998,000 tons in 1917) and he made clear that the sea war was the real, basic...
...first time in 22 years, the Met revives The Daughter of the Regiment, whose bubbling tunes were written by Gaetano Donizetti a century ago. It revives it specifically as an ear-tickling, eye-tickling vehicle for Coloratura Pons, who is vocally and boxofficially about the best there...
...fabulous bushy red eyebrows. From his office window he keeps a sharp eye on the campus, often roars commands across the green at boisterous lower-formers. The story goes that only once did the Doc's roars fail to achieve their intended effect. A kitchen worker ran amok through the Middle House one morning, brandishing a cleaver. When the man paid no heed to the Doc's bellowing, Dr. Hume took off his coat, knocked the fellow down, sat on his chest and calmly told his pupils to call the police...
...edition of Who's Who (British) listed, among 40,000 "men and women most in the public eye today," Adolf Hitler. Censors permitting, Britons could still reach him by telephone at No. 11 6191; by mail at Wilhelmstrasse 77, Berlin W. 8., or at Ober-Salzberg, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria...