Word: lineing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down the line, the U.S. economy was moving into high gear. Christmas shopping was off to a flying start (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The Pittsburgh steel mills, rushing to make up for strike-lost time, expect to hit 90% of capacity this week. Soft-coal production climbed to 14 million tons the week ended Nov. 19, highest point since April 1948. Unemployment was dropping in the cities that had been hardest hit in the spring recession and the fall strikes. And the automakers were chestier than ever. General Motors predicted that it would make a record 2,750,000 cars...
...scriptwriting catches so much of the vitality and fire of rabble-rousing politics, it is a pity that it also uses some too-familiar materials. When a henchman gets out of line, Stark's actions recall a dozen gangster movies: backed by a tiny, shifty-faced gunman, he props his feet on the table, snarls from the side of his mouth and turns his victim into quaking jelly; filled with lead from an assassin's revolver, Stark babbles improbable curtain lines that too carefully-dear up any audience doubt as to his power-mad aims...
...Luce suggested profit-sharing and laws "in the direction of social justice" as a start toward bringing capitalism more in line with Christian ethics, but warned against the trend to "statism...
However, the winners were never pressed and they had the game well in hand by the time Tufts tried to muster a late rally. This was largely because, in addition to outscoring the visitors from the floor, (not from scrimmage, but from the foul line), Harvard had the superior defense...
...second line of Preston, Garrity, and Kittredge stole the show, earning more goals and assists than the other two lines combined. Preston, the center, worked well, producing one goal on a vicious shot in the first period and accounting for two others late in the game with beautiful passes...