Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would easier credit end the spring slump that had many businessmen worried? It was still too early to tell, but there were already signs that businessmen, having cut their inventories to the bone, were beginning to end their own buying strike. One furniture maker reported new orders 36% above last year's. The hard-hit textile industry picked up to the point where raw wool prices were on the rise again, and rayon and acetate shipments were up 4½% since March. The wholesale-price average of all commodities turned up 0.1% for the week, indicating a stiffer demand...
During World War I, an Albanian was asked how he felt about the war. "What?" he replied. "Two dogs are fighting for a bone, and you ask the bone how it feels...
...World War II, the Ukraine was such a bone. Ukrainian nationalism, long feared and thwarted by the czars, had been ruthlessly suppressed by the commissars. When the war came to Russia, some Ukrainians hoped the Nazis might be a lesser evil, but they soon learned that between two dictatorships there can be little choice...
...swamped in hokum and sentimentality. Today even Nathan, a hard man to please, admits that it is a much better show. Nathan has backed his bid for high dramatic standards with wit, passion, and the integrity of a porcupine. Like Shaw, he has tickled his reader's funny bone while slipping him a cultural hotfoot...
Pictured above is JOHN B. OGDEN JR., Freshman Lacrosse Captain, of Columbus, Ohio, and Lionel Hall. Ogden is the first captain since before the war who was elected though the team knew he would be physically unable to play in his sport. His collar bone was fractured four days before the beginning of the season while clearing a ball from his position in the goal...