Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into sentimentality or affectation. An exceptionally successful use of sound effects and close-ups occasionally stretches the nerves of the audience to the breaking point. But it is not these technical niceties, not even the heartfelt acting, which make "Of Mice And Men" a great picture. It is its bare-faced simplicity, its unpretentions conception of the relations between mind and man, between man and annual. For once, the movie industry has gone out of its way to approach a world as devoid of glamor and "oomph" as a clod of earth. Perhaps, after all, Hollywood and California...
...help compensate for this rise, badly-needed wage increases of from 5% to 10% were enforced throughout Italian industry last March and a further wage rise is again needed to keep the Italian worker even on the bare subsistence level...
...them, for to Finland's tiny army every man was precious. How many men the Russians used, nobody knew. It did not matter; they had all they could deploy and replacements for all who fell. From the other fronts they had to defend, the Finns could spare a bare 100,000 to man their Mannerheim forts and entrenchments-and they had no reserves. As the second week of battle drew to a close General Harald Ohquist's Karelian Army was exhausted but still confident. There seemed to be a lull in the onslaught, and in Helsinki people said...
...summons had been unexpected but imperious: "Dear Vag--There has been an ugly bare spot on my dressing table ever since Scotties went out of fashion. Could use your picture to fill it up until I think of something more original. Please try not to look as glum as usual...
...Germany. The first date Allen recalls with sketchy vividness. The day after Labor Day, 1929, when the Dow-Jones average of stockmarket prices hit an all-time high, was a scorcher from Nebraska to Maine. On the streets you could see a few back less dresses and bare legs, practically no tinted nails. Bobs were shingled in back, banged on brows, swept on cheeks. A man named Garnet Carter of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., got on a train for Miami, where he was to install the first Miniature Golf Course in Florida. Liberal weeklies were referring to John L. Lewis...