Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could pierce. It was no propaganda flash in the pan. General "Tooey" Spaatz and his new chief of staff, Major General Curtis LeMay (see below), were ready with the atomic wherewithal to give Japan the awful rain promised by President Truman. That rain was bound to make the war shorter than it would have been. But how much shorter...
...Roswell's officers knew that flying the most complex of all battle planes calls for long study and practice on the ground, regardless of experience. They also knew that time was short and equipment even shorter. Last December they turned their problem over to bouncing, baby-faced Lieut. Carlin E. Rowen, 26, a onetime burlesque song & dance man, who plans to create his own business after the war under the name of "Ideas...
After 37 days the Japs imprisoned him in Manila. When MacArthur's men freed him, 36 months later, Weissblatt was hobbling on crutches, one leg three inches shorter than the other and twisted 90 degrees out of position. The bullet was still in his thigh...
Prominent in this unpleasant situation is awl-eyed Sydney Greenstreet, a psychoanalyst who explains to married friends who would presumably know a shorter word for it that, according to Freud, "love" is the root of all evil. Physically appropriate as the frigid sister-in-law, Alexis Smith is less persuasive as an actress. On the other hand, Director Curtis Bernhardt and his colleagues exploit such action possibilities as the fierce, desolate murder scene with masterful detail, turn the story's emotions into something more cruel and vivid than a series of plot signposts...
...construction, got the go-ahead-if-you-can sign to spend $1,000 on a one-family house, $2,000 on a three-and up to $5,000 on a five-family house. But most expenditures would be in repairs, and most repairs would require lumber - which is shorter than ever. (The U.S. construction industry was also told that it could begin preliminary earth moving operations for new projects without WPB authorization - if no lumber or other construction materials except drainage pipe were required...