Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anzio beachhead last week the U.S. and Allied press won a minor counterattack but they were losing a major battle against brass-buttoned censorship. The Army had served notice that it could make correspondents hew to the official line of what is good and what is bad battle news...
...home owners are expected to hew away at their funded debt this year. Best estimates are that they will trim their mortgages by a staggering $4 billion. This will be 10% more than they paid off last year, and almost four times as much mortgage debt as they retired in 1939. Thus U.S. citizens, long abusively criticized for squandering their fat wartime earnings in nightclubs and swanky shops, actually have been behaving as wisely and thriftily as so many Ben Franklins. In three war years they will have reduced their mortgage debt by $10.9 billion, their annual fixed charges (interest...
Teamwork. Close liaison with U.S., British and Russian missions has bolstered Tito's position. Best known of these liaison officers is 32-year-old Brigadier Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean of the Cameron Highlanders, Conservative M.P., a Scot with a huge mustache and a quiet aptitude for danger, who has been at Tito's headquarters since last spring...
These frank sentiments of the late, annoyingly literary George Moore got some rich encouragement last week. The best-known photographer of Harper's Bazaar had turned his glamorizing lenses on Gizeh and Thebes (see cuts). Baron George Hoyningen-Huene (pronounced Hoyningen-Hew-ney), 43, collaborated with Egyptologist George Steindorff, formerly of Leipzig University, in the publication of a super-glossy picture book with a short but solid text, Egypt (J. J. Augustin; $7.50). Fashion photographer Hoyningen-Huene went at his job with self-evident Schiaparelish; he romanticized immemorial stone as effectively as he ever did laces and velvets...
Wellington suffered at the hands of the Duke of York, King George III, King George IV, King William IV, Sir Harry Burrard, the Horse Guards, his brilliant brother Richard, Lord Wellesley, Sir Hew Dalrymple, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Melbourne, his friend Lord Castlereagh, the Hindoos, the Portuguese, the Spanish generals. But in this long catalogue of enemies and enmity the most merciless, damaging and unrelenting were the English poets and prose writers, and the spirit of sardonic mockery they expressed, not only against the Duke but against the conservative principles for which he was the ablest warrior...