Word: folds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody expected the Communist Party to fold up at once. There were some arguments that if Russia fell quickly, and Stalin was succeeded by a Muscovite Darlan, Hitler could take over the Communist International, make even more effective use of U.S. Communists than Stalin had been able to. But the general belief was that the mainspring...
Over 95% of die castings (formed by forcing molten metal under pressure into steel) are made out of aluminum and zinc, both of which are under priority control. Without aluminum and zinc, the die-casting industry must fold up. Die castings are essential to countless defense products. Yet defense orders (which carry priorities) amount to less than 15% of the industry's business today...
...word "fundamentalist" went unspoken, but Dr. Smith's nominators stressed the "orthodoxy" and "genuineness" of his Presbyterianism. Dr. Coffin's supporters praised him for making Manhattan's Union Seminary (which left the Presbyterian fold in the 'gos when the General Assembly suspended Professor Charles Augustus Briggs from the ministry for "liberal" interpretations of the Old Testament) a school of vital evangelical theism...
Heard oftenest-usually profanely-that night in Minneapolis bars was the name of John Cowles, 42-year-old publisher of the Minneapolis Star-Journal. Rumor was that John Cowles (rhymes with bowls) had bought the two Tribune papers, was going to fold them for good-as he had the Minneapolis Journal two years before...
Once in the fold, she acquires an aging socialite (Ian Hunter), a plush Park Avenue apartment, seven diamond bracelets, six fur coats, and the eye of the gossip columnists. In the end she dies of a brandy heart-but not before she has slunk, semiclad, through sumptuous extravaganzas that make the old Ziegfeld Follies look like the East Orange Passion Play...