Word: letup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Letup. "I attended the afternoon program, which was conducted by people from the Welsh mining district. ... A department manager of a major English steel company confessed how he had decided he must change, and how the union men also changed when he told them he was sorry for his past dictatorial attitude. He was followed by a union organizer from the same department, who testified that he had been a militant Communist for 28 years and had thought it 'a capitalist, stunt' when the manager faced him with kindness, but had been changed by the power...
Hand-to-Mouth. British industry was in no holiday mood, either. "If there is any letup in production," said Sir Stafford Cripps of Britain's export-or-die program, "we shall come a cropper in a year or two." The export goal, 175% of 1938 volume, had looked close last July: exports were up to 120%. But by November they had slipped to 117%. And last week, due to lack of coal, the export program was well on its way to coming a cropper...
...movie camera always finds some beauty and some excitement in galloping horses and sweeping landscapes. Since The Great Train Robbery (1903), Hollywood has made a steady, handsome income-and taken frequent expensive flyers-on what the trade calls "oaters" (TIME, April 29). There is still no sign of a letup...
There was no letup. The President kept his eye on the calendar, and the date of his reckoning with his sworn political foe, Congressman Roger Slaughter, up for renomination in the Missouri primary this week. But there was a mountain of work to move before Politician Truman could go off electioneering...
There was no such letup at Okinawa, dearly bought eyrie of the Far East Air Forces. General George C. Kenney sent B-24s to burn Kurume, on Kyushu Island; later waves turned aside to secondary targets near...