Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is a presumption that speculation will continue. Russian industry is still not producing in the desired quantities. Russian farmers are still inclined to retain as much of their foodstuffs as they possibly can, rather than sell them at pre-determined prices. Many essential goods are in very short supply. So long as the basic ingredients of inflation are present they will have a tendency to assert their influence. With the amount of goods available for purchase remaining the same, the prices may be lowered; but then there will also be less rubles to be spent. In that case...
...Secrecy, applied in a stupid and hysterical and demagogic way, can actually impair and weaken our security. . . . We need ideas if we are to keep our lead and increase it. . . . New ideas require not only inspiration and perspiration but information. . . . It would be nothing short of a major national catastrophe if through lack of an informed public opinion America's atomic enterprise should drift into the doldrums, should fall prey to ignorance or panic or indifference or petty politics...
...mayor decided to take action. He collected a group of miners, wrapped a tricolor sash around his waist, and advanced on the pit heads. They were met by hundreds of Communists and hangers-on (only a few of them local people) who had armed themselves with clubs. After a short scuffle the Abbé Lorent's forces withdrew. "I wanted to avoid bloodshed," he said...
...When the strikers came into the front yard, I and some of my friends advanced to meet them. We had a short but quite violent fight. No shots were fired, but clubs were used on both sides. I had my blackjack. The Communists were repelled, and withdrew, leaving one badly beaten man on the ground. I picked him up, patched him up, gave him a drink, and sent him home...
...places, television was meeting real resistance from the drinking customers. On Manhattan's Gin Lane (Third Avenue), and in Chicago and Los Angeles, barflies seemed to have reached a conclusion long since reached in Britain (where pub hours are short): "It takes up too much drinking time, you know." The more sophisticated had also become bored by anything but large-screen (at least 19 by 25 in.) telecasts...