Word: shorteners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investigation. He said that the academician Vinogradov should be put in chains; another one should be beaten. Present at this Congress as a delegate is the former Minister of State Security Ignatiev. Stalin told him curtly, 'If you do not obtain confessions from the doctors, we will shorten you by a head.' Stalin personally called the investigative judge, gave him instructions, advised him on which investigative methods should be used; these methods were simple-beat, beat, and again beat. Shortly after the doctors were arrested, we members of the Politburo received protocols with the doctors' confessions...
Like just about everything Bates has written, The Sleepless Moon is well carpentered, easily written, and well calculated to shorten a train ride or add pleasure to a tall drink. In a small English town, Constance is married to the town grocer, a man so respectable, correct and dull that passion has no chance. His comfortable household runs like a metronome, but his bed has a built-in deepfreeze. Not only does the virginal Constance wait in vain on her wedding night, she waits in vain, period...
...defense, which will be submitted to the next meeting of the Committee on Educational Policy, contends that the proposal will not "shorten the number of active 'working days...
...since May 1953. In the process he had built a reputation as a money-saving, detail man. So meticulous that he separates the meat from the potatoes when eating beef hash, he saved paper clips, and put three-minute egg timers on subordinates' desks to shorten telephone calls. But Mansure's fine eye for housekeeping details (which won the praise of the Hoover Commission) was not always matched by a clear view of the bigger picture. He seemed to have one standard for office efficiency and quite another for political shenanigans...
...School of Arts and Sciences, said that the new law might draw more graduate students because of the draft advantages. "However, I don't think it is a very admirable way to get now teachers," he added. Elder questioned the quality of people who would become teachers merely to shorten their military service...