Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complications set in, and after years of wearing a brace and walking on crutches, Norris was left with one leg shorter than the other and a noticeable limp...
...should give priority to housing or to food production. They had disastrously overestimated Britain's ability to export, underestimated her need for dollars. They had concentrated on their pet nationalization schemes instead of all-out production. They had fulfilled the long-standing Socialist promises of higher pay and shorter hours at a time when production costs needed to be lowered and workers needed to work harder...
...Scotland, Horner gave a demonstration of his tactics and his might. On the platform he sat between grim, green-eyed Manny Shinwell and buck-toothed Lord Hyndley, chairman of the National Coal Board. Horner got from both of them exactly what he wanted. He asked for the closed shop, shorter hours, more social security...
Slimmer, Steadier. The Navy says with a straight face that the Neptune is only a peaceful research project. Its specifications give it a warlike look. It will be 45 ft. long-one foot shorter than the German V2, which is now considered obsolescent. It will be slimmer (32 inches in diameter instead of 65) and will weigh about six tons fully loaded, instead of the V-2's 14 tons...
Trek Toward Freedom. Much as the Koreans liked this evidence that the Americans really cared, they liked better the arrival of U.S. supplies to rebuild their country's shattered economy. The Communist Korean Government in the north was having its own difficulties; its food supply was shorter than that in the south, its regime unpopular with many of the people. But it had a Russian-equipped army at least 100,000 strong, and it did not have to contend with the confused intrigue of 200 political parties as Hodge did in the south. Nevertheless, there was still a chance...