Word: shred
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...great relief, Aquila is stung into fighting a duel with another comic American-a Southerner, suh, that only a British writer could dream up-and the pair leap into each other's arms. The book ends two years later with Aquila hugging his wife and benignly watching baby shred up his books. The couple are settling down to true happiness securely based on freedom from thought...
...There is not a shred of actual evidence," Charlie Wilson told an electrical dealers' convention, "that bigness has been an evil force either economically or socially. No company and no industry has yet been big enough to bring enough goods to enough people. To fulfill its promises and deserve its power, industry must continue to grow." There are few large industrial concerns today anywhere near monopoly proportions, said he. In fact, many small businesses, built around closely held patents, "come much closer to having a monopoly...
...State Department and known to Acheson," and McCarthy had not yet produced the name of a single card-carrying Communist. In a bitter, shouting uproar on the Senate floor, Majority Leader Scott Lucas declared: "The time has come to call a spade a spade . . . Not a shred of evidence has been presented-not a shred...
...only fact on which we disagree is whether or not I was present at the "nomination" meeting, and the letter in this column Thursday confirming my presence there should serve to destroy even this final shred of my adversary's case. It is time both of those gentlemen learned something most of us realize by the age of six: when you are caught doing something naughty, it is best to admit it and promise not to do it again. George L. Wrenn...
What's wrong with the human face? Nothing, says Pablo Picasso, not a thing. Two eyes, a nose and a mouth are nice in themselves; furthermore it is great fun to add and subtract them, multiply and divide, maul, chop, smear, twist and shred them...