Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prescribed manner lifted a few of the phrases sticking out all over the column and cited them as an example of something or other very bad. William objected unhappily that that was taking a statement out of context. "A honey of a way to take a person apart," he grieved...
...narrow, split skirts. In the bygone era of extraterritoriality, they had never been invited to Madame Garnett's dress salon. Now Madame boasted a clientele of "all the most prominent Chinese." They are "very, very wealthy and very, very rich," she explained. The foreign ladies, carefully sitting apart, accepted the new era with resignation...
...carried out far more thoroughly in the American zone than in either the Russian or British. At the moment, all other questions are secondary to the dangerous prospect of near-starvation. Obviously you cannot democratize a starving people. Only the extraordinary obedience of the Germans keeps things from falling apart completely...
...domestic and flirtatious. Much of the Turner-Garfield dialogue, which needs the flickering intensity of adders' tongues, is paced and keyed like an erotic discussion between a couple of cats. Finally, a kind of overall rigor artis of anxiety, sincerity and division of purpose chops the scenes badly apart-like oranges in a Christmas stocking...
...forty-eight hours later, only 78 of them were alive. Most of an entire platoon of his, racing to the assault, had suddenly felt the ground collapse under them, and had found themselves wallowing at the bottom of a mammoth tank-trap, while Jap machine-gunners literally ripped them apart. The other rifle platoons stormed their way onto a nearby point of the island-and found themselves cut off. When, at last, relief came and Captain Hunt and his handful of men staggered back to the beach, they had withstood three terrible counterattacks and killed more than 500 Japs...