Word: letup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most ambitions, and perhaps even the most dramatically effective effort ever seen in the American theater. The play, a modern version of Aeschylus' resounding and grisly trilogy, "The Oresteia," lasted five hours, during which there were four violent deaths, a number of suggestions of incest, and scarcely a letup in the terrible tension. Now comes the movie. No concessions have been made to the public's sentimentality, and the compression of the film to two and a half hours makes the experience if anything more painfully intense...
...four years, in his crusade for family prayer, Father Peyton nagged the networks without letup-and without success. When he suggested reading the rosary coast-to-coast, vice presidents by the score yawned in his face. Last February, Mutual promised to let him do a weekly dramatic show, with nonsectarian opening and closing plugs for prayer. There was one catch: Father Peyton would have to rope in at least one film star a week...
There will be a brief letup when the Varsity returns to Cambridge, with two games apiece with Brown and North-western flanking the exam period. But in mid-February, Army, B.U., Princeton, Dartmouth, B.C., and Yale follow in quick succession. It's going to be a cold winter...
Bacon: 85?. There was no letup as the summer wore on. In Chicago, eggs were up from 57? (in June) to 65? a dozen; in St. Louis, butter had crept from 77? to 83? a pound; in Milwaukee a pound of round steak had jumped from 73? in June to 83?; in San Francisco, a pound of sliced bacon from 75? to 85?. Many tenants had just gotten a bill for 15% increase in rent...
There was no letup. In Kansas City, he. breakfasted with 150 Kansas and Missouri bigwigs, lunched with 175 more, shook hands with 1,500 lesser fry at a reception in the afternoon. There was a small-hours conference with local professionals, and a dinner given by Kansas Governor Frank Carlson. Dewey admitted with a grin that he and his family "have seen more Republicans in the last five days than I ever thought I would see in my life." Answering a question about the Kansas City vote frauds (TIME, June 16), he took a swipe at Harry Truman...