Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be said (and undoubtedly would be) that this was only a "moral" commitment. But since there exists no supranational agency capable of enforcing commitments by sovereign states, all treaties rest on moral commitments. The European nations seemed to be satisfied-and that was the main point...
Last-Wednesday the Weather Bureau and the H.A.A. saw fit to cooperate and Munro led his band forth into the March gales to practice on the Busy School soccer field, bounded on the side by a sacred bit of yet-undried turf--the main part of the field--and on the other by a late spring artificial lake...
...main story, however, is chiefly Hammerstein's work. It is a love story, the pair involved consisting of a U. S. Navy nurse and a Frenchman who is approaching middle-age and lives in the south Pacific. I won't tax you with a synopsis of its details, but it adds up, despite a woefully slow first scene, to what is probably the first amorous relationship that has ever had any substance in the history of musicals...
...rented Tucker plant. It looked bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard: no workable assembly line, no jigs for mass production, no body presses. There were a few modern die presses and foundry equipment, and a snappy paint shop. In what Tucker called the "machine shop and main assembly plant," only a portable crane was visible...
Normal State. In Austin, Tex., Attorney Wright Stubbs, defending a woman charged with drunken driving, shook the prosecution's main piece of evidence with a telling argument: "Talkativeness is certainly no evidence of intoxication in the case of a woman...