Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commissars censor every bit of copy, iron out minor kinks in the party line, or send the stories and headlines back to be rewritten if the facts don't fit the party's position of the day. For Worker staffers and contributors-Agnes Smedley, Rob Hall, Howard Fast et al.-the line is as inevitable and as obvious in news story, editorial or literary column as red rogue's yarn-the colored strand that runs through Royal Navy cordage. Example: the presidential inauguration story was headlined: TRUMAN REBUFFS SOVIET PEACE...
...easy selling, many executives are finding themselves in a strange new world. As Randolph Hyde, treasurer of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., pointed out, probably half of them, having come to the top in an easy-selling, war-boom decade, were "without true competitive experience." They were getting it fast...
...practically intact form Noble and Greenough, a local prep school. Second highest scorers, Morgan Hatch and Nat Harris, former Eastern Massachusetts prep school champions, played together for three years at school. With Jack Snelling, last year's St. Mark's hockey captain, they naturally form a capable line. Their fast skating and high scoring won the Arlington and Melrose games...
...through Chevrolet's forge plant recently, he stopped to watch a young Negro feed long, red-hot rods into a machine which twisted them into knee-action coil springs. "Look," Wilson nudged a visitor. "He's going to let the rods pile up to show us how fast he can work. See how he gives the ends a little twist? He's our best man on this job because he's got rhythm in his soul." Then, admiringly, Wilson stepped up and told...
...plot-essentially a fast, exciting chase with psychological overtones-gives Loretta Young a chance to play a menaced heroine, a role that she does with high skill. Will murder out? Will the beautiful professor be mangled in the coils of her own guilt-or will she be stalked down by the smart, relentless detective? Her only escape seems to be offered by a handsome young lawyer (Robert Cummings) who loves her even when he begins to doubt her innocence. But Loretta is as thoroughly fascinated by the strategy of her accuser as she is by the fond advice of counsel...