Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week cracks had begun to show in the hard German crust. By the fifth day the Americans could count their advances in miles instead of hundreds of yards...
While we're still searching for the hard luck kid seeking priorities on the western frontier, the smug expression of Romeo Ray Wibble and many others too numerous to count are worth noting. There is a general "attitude" of complete satisfaction all around as we finish the finest leave since way back...
...York. Most experts had predicted a big drop in New York City's civilian registration. When the count was in, it was almost up to 1940. This was due largely to P.A.C. and its allies, the American Labor and Liberal Parties. P.A.C. and its allies then boosted F.D.R.'s city plurality above 1940-from 61.2% to 61.6%. This was enough to give F.D.R. the victory, even though Dewey got a bigger plurality upstate than Willkie...
...London, last week, one of the strangest of living politicians, Count Michael Karolyi, Tolstoyan, Socialist and Hungarian nobleman, was closely noting his country's confused and frantic efforts to break with Germany...
...Grant), to be sure, is no longer pimpled or puerile, and no longer ends his story in vindictive dedication to petty crime; yet his meaning, as an embattled young man of his century, has been rather clarified than muddied in the movie. He begins as a cocky, kindly, no-count bum, the best motive for whose footlessness is his dislike for "cheating pennies out of poor devils poorer than meself." When he learns that his Ma (Ethel Barrymore) is soon to die of cancer, he stays home for a change, helping her with her fusty second-hand goods shop, fending...