Word: pent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Places & Habits. Weegee, whose rabbi father brought him to the U.S. from Austria when he was ten, went to work early, spent 15 years pent up in Acme's darkrooms, developing pictures that other men took. He broke away to free lance six years ago, began to get places when Marshall Field's PM hired him and gave his pictures a big play...
...halo hat trailing a waist-length floating black lace scarf. Then there was an evening gown-33 yards of chiffon shading from deep apricot to pale oyster. At these and 46 other fripperies, in the ballroom of the West End's swank Mayfair Hotel, women buyers gasped with pent-up pleasure. It was London's first "non-austerity" style show in six years...
...Another reason for varying conditions is that pent-up demand for essential replacements will absorb some 1942 models (the first off the assembly lines), but at some point the public will hold back and wait for the much publicized postwar models. This procedure may produce inventory problems for merchants; it may also force manufacturers rapidly through two reconversions-first from war production to civilian production, 1942 style, then from 1942 to 1946 style...
Automobiles. A few cars will be made in the next six to nine months, but it will be three years before pent-up civilian demand can be met. The shortage in tires, batteries continues...
Death came last week to Benito Mussolini, from the rifles of an Italian firing squad. As his body lay, reviled and spat upon, in a public square of Milan, it was as though the pent-up jury of a nation was beating upon the senseless clay of the man who had led it to vainglory, shame and disaster. From TIME Correspondent Reg Ingraham came this eyewitness report of one of history's raw spectacles...