Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protested last week that, although she had been working for OCD for two months, she had not yet had any pay, would stand by OCD, regardless. "They can't dig any skeletons out of my closet," said she. One thing dug out of Mayris' closet was a scheme for setting up a physical-fitness assembly line: children were to move down the line under their own power, to be serviced every twelve feet by an instructor in "breathing, marching and relaxing...
...story was just as bad as the old one. They also thought they'd provide an antidote to the somewhat ghastly charms of Miss McDonald. So they raided--and that word is more descriptive than you think--the Metropolitan Opera and came up with Rise Stevens. This little scheme fell through for the same reason: Miss Stevens, though she has fewer teeth than Jeannette, is no better than her predecessor...
...global struggle of World War II, it is likely that the Navy will take over more unified commands than the Army. But in the Far East, where the widest application of the scheme has been set up, British General Sir Archibald Wavell is in supreme command of the United Nations, outranking U.S. Admiral Tommy Hart, head of all Allied naval activities...
...victory production campaign. This statement might also be regarded as mild. Whether or not Martin's suggestion was any more than coincidental to Wilson's warm-worded defence of Free Enterprise is not as important as the fact that industry seems to be following its usual war-time scheme of making tomorrow's fortunes out of today's misery...
This week Washington was pleased with the response to its new scheme. If it works, it may be extended to munitions makers. The way: extra pay, not thank-you-notes, for ahead-of-schedule deliveries; bonuses, not brush-offs, for bright manufacturing ideas to help beat the Axis...