Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bargaining Leopold's Christian Socialist supporters, just short of a parliamentary majority, gave up their drive to recall the King at once. The Liberals entered the cabinet only on condition that the royal question be left unanswered for another three or four months...
Long before the sun was up one morning this week, three carloads of Syrian army officers rolled through the deserted streets of Damascus, stopped at the home of Syria's dictator, short, stumpy Husni Zaim. The officers awakened Marshal Zaim, told him he was under arrest. Then they sped to the home of bespectacled Premier Mohsen el Barazi, burst into his bedroom, took him from the house in his pajamas. Within the hour, a drumhead court-martial had sentenced both to death. As the sun rose, they were executed by a firing squad in the Mezze Prison...
Zaim had lived bravely, perhaps, but certainly not prudently. He had been chief of staff in Syria's disastrous war with Palestine. After he seized power (TIME, April 11), he shot no one and jailed only a few, but in his 4½ short months of dictatorship he made many enemies. He offended Moslem religious leaders when he proposed that women give up their veils, gain the vote; he alienated the wealthy because he raised taxes, the merchants because he lowered prices. Nationalists were sore because he gave concessions to the U.S. Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co. and signed...
...disciplined. The unit has lost most of its auxiliaries-the pony men, the bearers of cameras and mackintoshes and flasks, the underkeeper who combined the functions of guide with those of a minor and excessively gloomy prophet ... By tea time today, the grouse should have enough material for a short sociological treatise-unless, of course, confused by so many departures from precedent, he had departed from precedent himself and flown into the flak...
Everybody in the room knew what Acheson was talking about. The week before, at a press conference on the China white paper (TIME, Aug. 15), the Secretary had been as short-tempered as a snapping turtle, and he had snapped at reporters who were cautiously double-checking to make sure they had their facts straight...