Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front-page story in that morning's Washington Post bore a shocking headline: INEFFICIENCY, WASTE LAID TO WPB's IRON, STEEL BRANCH. Said the Post scoop: a young, $5,600-a-year WPB consultant named Frederick I. Libbey was cooking up a report which would blister the WPB's Iron & Steel Branch; after consultation around the country with steel experts he had found gross mismanagement in Washington; he was convinced the steel branch experts were second-rate ex-salesmen palmed off on the Government by steel companies who don't need salesmen any more. Only...
...fall, Otis skinned the Negro so unmercifully that he drew a knife. Otis Town smashed in his skull with a singletree. Then he went to the cabin with a jar of vaseline and a piece of red ribbon, which he gave to the woman. Next winter, Mammy bore him a son and called...
...Leonski and her daughter Helen. They said that the News's Al Willard had lied to them about Private Leonski's true status, that as proof, they had a receipt for their photograph of the young soldier, which the News had published, and that the receipt bore Willard's name and address. TIME telephoned the News and was told that Willard was a reporter there. So TIME labeled Willard as the misinformer, but the Leonskis and TIME were wrong...
Each of these methods may ruin an oil well for months. In most cases, the quickest way to reopen a thoroughly demolished well is to bore another shaft right beside the old one. This is a matter of weeks or months, depending on the toughness of the bedrock and depth of the oil. In the Russian fields, the bedrock is generally soft, the oil not far (often less than 1,000 feet) below the surface...
Cradle of Hate. Itagaki was born at precisely the right time. In 1885, when his peasant mother bore him in Iwate Prefecture, the Samurai grip on the Japanese army had been broken for twelve years. Until 1873, only the sons of Japan's warrior caste could be officers; and, until a very few years before that, ingrown Japan was uninterested in the schemes of conquest which alone could develop military imperialists. As it was, Seishiro Itagaki was free to join and rise in the new army. Japan in his boyhood was storing up the ambitions, greeds and hatreds which...