Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinions on everything: "If you will study the history of almost any criminal you will find that he is an inveterate cigaret smoker." "Literature is all right but it doesn't mean much." "A man learns something even by being hanged...
Many retailers are determinedly selling old stock at ceiling prices, and a few are refusing to pay more for new stock. But no organized buyers' strike is evident. For the Dominion's wage earners, price increases already effective or foreseen mean another squeeze. Labor is restless because corporate profits are at an alltime high, taxes are still near the wartime level, and rising prices have offset the wage increases labor got last year...
...future was in his past. Still looking like a college boy-but of the class of '25, Rudy said: "People have me returning from the zombie dead. I don't look or act 45. I try to keep my stuff up-to-date. Nostalgia doesn't mean much...
Murphy: Honestly, it's mean of them...
...Labor Party and Government will make a serious mistake if they misread all this to mean that they can get by with anything. The one complaint heard in workers' canteens and in Tory bosses' offices alike is: "They don't give us a lead." It is the single crack in Labor's armor, and it could widen into one big enough to let out Clement Attlee and all his Cabinet...