Word: finished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman was wearing that confident look, too, as he faced his press conference. Senator Lucas, he declared firmly, had been misunderstood. Congress should finish the job-it didn't make any difference how long it took. As for himself, he was still for everything, he said...
...since the black days of Teapot Dome had such grave charges and innuendoes been sounded by a responsible member of the U.S. Congress. Yet newsmen everywhere handled the charges gingerly. They were aware of the degeneration of the interservice squabbles into an eye-gouging finish fight. In the Pentagon, the security curtain clanked down abruptly. Worried staff officers warned inquiring newsmen not even to discuss the matter over the telephone, for fear of wiretapping. A stream of other rumors flooded through Washington...
High-priced live properties were involved, too. Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr. and Director John Huston labored over production logistics, the script, casting, and selection of thousands of costumes and props. The picture was on the schedules of Elizabeth Taylor, Walter Huston and Peck himself, who was to finish a film for 20th Century-Fox on June 15 and fly straight to Rome...
...this, Bolles, Strong and Co. are to be congratulated. They stand an excellent chance of defeating Yale over the four-mile course at New London and thus finish the year undefeated. But even if they do this, they will not have met the toughest competition available: the fine western crews which will make their only east-coast appearance at Poughkeepsie the day after the Yale regatta...
...mile marker the Crimson was an even length in front, and pulled this lead out to two lengths to finish going away...