Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Portland to Pottsville. The fall of Paris gave another puff to the giant balloon of U.S. optimism. The cheering over Paris was the merest rehearsal for the most important date now on U.S. minds: the day Germany gives up. From Hollywood to Manhattan, U.S. communities were perfecting solemn, nervous or frivolous plans for V-day-and almost all city & state officials seemed to be going ahead on the assumption that the citizenry would get roaring drunk. Many citizens, suspecting that the officials might be right, were laying away extra quarts of blended spirits...
...enemy on the ropes; he is dazed and his knees are buckling." Then he ordered a pip-squeak move: to place ceilings on employment in all nonessential industries, hoping thereby to send 200,000 workers to war plants. The Washington Post assigned half its staff to write huff-puff stories along General Somervell's line. But the Post and the General were struggling against a tide...
Well might Joseph Stalin puff his pipe, shrug his shoulders...
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Some cinemaddicts disturbed by the gap between the seriousness of the subject matter and this somewhat sorority-house treatment of it, may feel as if they had been brained with a powder puff...