Word: mewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maniac, play it as if they 1) wished they were elsewhere, but 2) felt that they owed some kind of minimum to their employers and their conscience as craftsmen. Supporting players are given to lines like "Yon storm'll be upon us main soon."*Others merely curtsy, mew incoherently or tug their forelocks. For what it is worth-a middling curdler-the whole thing was much better done in 1937 by Basil Rathbone and Ann Harding...
...less an authority than Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare came up last week with the old, hitherto wishful story that Germany is running out of oil. This time MEW said officially, flatly, that German oil production from all sources had fallen to half the essential needs of the German armed forces. Supporting evidence: bombs have destroyed at least half the Reich's synthetic oil plants, knocked out all Rumanian refineries (except possibly "Romano-Americana," formerly owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey). Rumanian crude must be carried to German refineries by vulnerable railroads or Danube barges, then...
Already, said MEW, the shortage was hampering military operations. But MEW hedged a little. Bombing must not stop, it warned; refineries and oil plants can be repaired...
Optimists Down. Such reports from Germany are often 30 to 60 days behind current facts. But sober MEW men believed last week that Germany's economy was still in a process of deterioration, not collapse. If they were right, Nazi Germany can still take a lot of beating from the air and on the fronts...
...First Relief got over the divide. The huts in the first camp were buried so deep the seven men could not see them. They called. "Something like a woman came up out of a hole in the snow." Others "crawled up the ramp of frozen snow to mew at the seven men from beyond the mountains. . . . They looked like mummies...