Word: shoestringer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In its investigation into World War II profiteering, the Senate's Mead Committee began beating the bushes and flushed game all over the field. Prize exhibits from the first week's walk through the underbrush was a pair of brothers named Murray W. and Dr. Henry M. Garrson...
His rival, Ezequiel Padilla, grandiloquent apostle of international cooperation, traveled on a shoestring. His backers, a few conservative businessmen and some ardent amateurs, could not match the turnouts of Alemán's labor unions and bureaucrats. But those who shouted "Viva!" were truly enthusiastic. Padilla's eloquent...
Le Maitre Lop, serious and simple in his white celluloid collar, black shoestring tie and tortoise-shell glasses, greeted them from the stage. He wore his usual huge black Homburg on the head his followers say is shaped "like a flatiron upside down, recalling the glory of the Victory of...
Producer Filippo Del Giudice (who promoted Noei Coward's In Which We Serve on an original ?15,000 shoestring) furnished some, and raised more.t of the ?472,000 (a little under $2,000,000) which Henry V cost.
Compared to the atom bomb, the CWS project was a shoestring venture-well under $100,000 for bacterial-warfare research; $2 billion for the bomb. Bacterial warfare could be even more hideous than sudden atomic death. The mere existence of CWS showed how little man trusted man; how far man...