Word: hay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most independent-minded (vis-a-vis the U. S.), and at the same time the most pro-British, and so the Ortiz-Castillo feud will have little effect on foreign policy unless it blows up into revolution. But in nearby Uruguay the anti-Government Herrerista-Blanco Party makes hay by opposing U. S. influence. In Paraguay a showdown is brewing between Dictator-President General Higino Morinigo and his would-be successor, onetime Provisional President Colonel Rafael Franco, who is now supporting himself by making soap in Buenos Aires...
Thus, as stiffly and artificially as a group of actors reading a bad play for the first time, did London's A. R. P. squads hold their first rehearsal of defense against gas. For a semblance of reality, a harmless gas with a stench like musty hay had been slopped in liquid form inside the roped off arena...
...only a few citizens could remember the meaning of the passage to India as Whitman saw it; fewer still could recapture the spirit of John Hay, when he spoke of the U. S. future in the "opening field" of the immense Pacific "on whose wide shores so much of the world's work is to be done...
...grade surface ore fields rather than mine them. And seed selection may breed a still more efficient horsetail. At present a ton of horsetail from low-grade gold fields will yield as much as 4½ oz. of gold, worth $157.50. Value of a ton of good timothy hay...
...record reveals Cagney as an East Side student dentist with a mooching Irish father (Alan Hale) whose philosophy is: "I was never in the world cut out to be a street cleaner and there's no use reaching for the stars." Cagney loses the neighborhood strawberry blonde (Rita Hay worth) to a chiselling contractor (Jack Carson) and on rebound marries her girl friend (Olivia de Havilland). Later they visit the contractor, grown rich, where they dine under newfangled electric light. "Isn't it dangerous?" asks Olivia. Says Carson: "Not if you pay the bill...