Word: half-dozen
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Tokyo Rose, slangy, honey-voiced Japanese radio propagandist, down to her last half-dozen badly scratched, pre-Pearl Harbor phonograph records, evoked the aid of the Miami Rod & Reel Club, which appropriated $500 to supply her with fresh discs-through neutral channels "or by bomber over Tokyo...
...greying, heavier, and a meticulous dresser. There was always a knifeedged crease in his trousers and his shoes glittered. He said: "I feel spiffy when I'm dressed just right." He carried a half-dozen clean handkerchiefs and sprayed himself with eau de cologne...
...agencies, spoke for Alf Landon, and warned the U.S. sarcastically that "You can't lick Santa Claus." Then he quit politics. His last years were quiet but busy. He became Honorary Curator of the Bronx Zoo, president of the long-empty Empire State Building, a director of a half-dozen corporations. He was one of the nation's great Roman Catholic laymen, and in 1937 he visited the Vatican. The next year he became a papal privy chamberlain. With his wife, who had once hung big washings on East Side clotheslines, he now lived handsomely on Fifth Avenue...
Furtwängler is generally rated among the first half-dozen maestros of the world. In Germany, where great music has long ranked among the important responsibilities of the state, he occupied a position as essential as that of a cabinet minister. When the Nazis took over, FurtwĠngler, as head of the state-supported Berlin Philharmonic and Berlin Opera, became one of their knottier problems. He detested the Nazis. But if they forced his resignation, Germany would lose one of her few remaining claims to cultural prestige. So they began seducing him into the Nazi game...
...regular corporal's guard of a half-dozen reporters were lounging in the White House lobby when Presidential Secretary Steve Early called them to his office. He merely handed them a mimeographed sheet of paper. "I think this is a pretty good story," he said in an offhand manner. That was all there...