Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report "indicates that the first year has been a decided success," he said, "but it doesn't mean we've achieved any goals." Emphasizing that the program remains in its experimental stage, he disclosed that it will take "at least three years and probably longer" before any final decision is made on the success of the program...
This sounded like a slightly more politic parroting of Senator Bob Taft. Did the President, like Taft, mean "eat less"? asked one reporter. No, said the President firmly, he meant to waste less. One restaurant owner had informed him that one slice of bread less per person would solve the wheat shortage. If people would save the bread they now throw away, he said, 70 million bushels of wheat could be saved without depriving anyone...
Crackling events reminded U.N. what enforcing solutions might mean. In the Eastern Mediterranean, British destroyers intercepted another shipload of Jewish refugees; one Jew was shot to death and nine were wounded in a scuffle with the boarding party. In Palestine, Haganah stepped up recruiting. Five Zionist leaders, including Jewish Agency President David Ben-Gurion, received messages signed by "the commander in chief of fighting Arab youth for free Palestine." The messages promised: "You will die as soon as possible...
Just what would lack of dollars mean to Frenchmen? Each month France has been using 5,500,000 tons of coal. But she has been producing only 4,000,000 tons. After October France can no longer buy the extra 1,500,000 tons a month from the U.S. French industrial production will drop 50%; French homes will have no coal...
...think of only one good use for hay. She points this good use out to Ladd, who spurns her advances. So she marries Preston in order to keep in touch with her quarry. Finally Ladd and Preston slug it out in a bar and find that they mean much more to each other than the disconcerted Miss Lamour does...