Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maneuver was almost unprecedented. Not since 1856 had a President called back Congress in an election year.* It was a daring stroke of political chicanery. For the moment, at least, Harry Truman had destroyed the notion that the Republican Party would win almost by default. Like an aggressive general, he had seized the offensive at a time and place of his own choosing. If anyone had thought that the President would fight a hopeless delaying action against the Dewey panzers, it was now plain as a tank track that Harry Truman meant to go down fighting...
This week the pressure was high against Ford Motor Co., which had not boosted wages like General Motors, Chrysler and other motormakers. Ford's 110,000 workers had voted to strike, but few United Auto Workers' officials expected that it would come to that. They expected a raise similar to the 9% increase given last week to Ford's 25,500 white-collar workers...
Evidence that few companies would be able to resist the general trend came from the Government-controlled North American Rayon and American Bemberg Corps. After arguing for months that the companies' prices .were already too high, the Office of Alien Property was finally won over by minority stockholders, agreed to let management charge 10% more...
There are several general rules for the successful operation of a nightclub. The room must be small and, on crowded nights, tables the size of telephone stands must be jammed together like jackstraws. The dance floor must be intimate enough to make people feel they are really rubbing elbows and posteriors with the great. To these rules, Hover adds a few of his own. Recently he has installed over the dance floor a new lighting fixture designed to enhance milady's makeup. As the evening (and milady's Pancake) begins to wear, the parabolic light slowly dims till...
...living authors have been deluged with the spate of homage which highbrow critics have loosed on I. Compton-Bur-nett. But as far as the general public is concerned, she might as well be dead-and not even her most passionate admirers (who include Elizabeth Bowen and Rosamund Lehmann) could fairly accuse the public of stupidity and ignorance. For all Compton-Burnett's novels (she has published eleven during the past 37 years) appear at first glance to be out of this world, artificial, aimless...