Word: walnut
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...peace was a pea under Reuther's walnut shells. Quicker than the eye, Reuther switched the pea. He announced that though Chrysler's new pension offer was good (he actually had won what he asked for), other benefits were inadequate. What Reuther's statisticians had discovered was that the cost to Chrysler for such pensions would be less per man per hour than the cost to Ford, because Ford workers are generally older and have had more years of service. Even though he had got his trust fund, Reuther was determined to make Chrysler cough...
...moans about his "troubles," heard from his pinnacle of success, make some fans snicker with envy or disbelief. But the fact that his troubles stem largely from a walnut-hard competitive instinct, an inch-short temper and a worry wart as big as a baseball, makes them no less real...
Gris's colors were on the flat side-a patchwork of plush green, stained walnut, grey felt and golden oak-but his forms were as many-faceted as a fly's eye. Until his death (at 40) in 1927, he was a master practitioner of cubism as well as its best spokesman...
...dares"). He urges all parties to unite with him for restoration of the Byzantine Empire, "of course without quarreling with the Turks, who are good, sweet fellows." Fiery, mustached Emperor Michael is vague about most of his program, but specific on one point: if elected, he wants a carved walnut throne. When he heard that part of the job of the U.N.'s Balkan Committee was to help Greeks, Michael got right in with his own request: ten cars, two typewriters, two radios, loudspeakers and money. In the meantime, he has been stopping Salonika traffic, campaigning from a table...
Fantastic Error. In his house on Walnut Street, Dr. Benjamin Rush plowed prayerfully through his medical library hoping to find a way to beat the yellow fever. He was a good and pious, if somewhat crotchety and hypersensitive man, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and generally considered the most eminent physician in the U.S. The "cure" he hit upon came from a clue in a manuscript on yellow fever written half a century before by a part-time physician and mapmaker. Rush's cure consisted simply of massive mercury (i.e., calomel) and jalap purges and copious bloodletting...