Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hard Way. On Mt. Rose, Nev., Robert Hector landed only five feet short of the winner in the University of Nevada Winter Carnival ski jump, despite the loss of both his skis in midair...
...there -he looked at me hard and sharp for two seconds and asked: "Suppose you had something to do with that picture in general, or, let's assume, with the music or sound effects, what would you suggest?" After I had talked about four minutes, he interrupted me short and said...
...dorm were plenty riled at Christian Dior's droopy New Look last summer. . . . But now, we heartily approve of Mr. Dior's New Short Look [TiME, Feb. 23], which we hope will soon soar up to knee length. Foolish women who have splurged on the New Look can cut the extra yardage off their skirts, use it for sofa covers, or send it to Europe to clothe destitute children...
...Baptist farmer's daughter who had been married, divorced, and had a job as cashier of a Birmingham hotel. Big Jim was 36, a widower with two small daughters. He had been around the world as a merchant seaman, had gone briefly to college, had served a short wartime hitch in the Army. When he met Christine he was a salesman for a burial-insurance company...
...hopes had concentrated on a peace treaty and the withdrawal of occupation troops. Now, Austrians hoped privately for continued deadlock in the treaty negotiations in London. So long as the occupation troops of the Western powers were present, the Austrians realized, the Communists could not take over, short of armed aggression. The Russians had been stalling on the peace treaty for months; now the Western powers might do some boot dragging...