Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem can be solved; it is not hopeless. Raggedly and slowly, but surely, the country's human and material resources are being mobilized. That is an enormous gain; The Crisis which ended Britain's short, uneasy sleep would not have come if that had been true last year...
Thereafter life was like new. Every day Obregon told him a new joke. He took him along when they went to fight down revolutions, and Genaro thanked God he was so short when bullets flew through the presidential train. On his last day in office, Obregon discovered he had got all this service free-Genaro was not on the palace payroll. He flipped Genaro a gold coin, promised: "When I come back I'll see that you get a home of your own." But he never came back. On the eve of his return to office he was assassinated...
Last week Grand-Guignol began its 50th season with four new short plays which had been toned down for the benefit of queasy critics. It was not like the old days; there were only three gruesome murders, and there was no torture more horrendous than a barehanded strangulation. Nobody in the audience even fainted. The spectators, mostly old Guignol-goers and a few youngsters whose parents had warned them not to go, lounged around on rough wooden benches and had a modest emotional binge. A few couples in screened baignoires had another kind of binge on the indifferent house champagne...
...play, the valiant medicos are frequently treated as very human men-ruthless, sharp-tongued, short-tempered. But in last week's production, they too often performed as though aware of the spotlight. Their actual heroism was a little blunted by touches of heroics, and Yellow Jack, by becoming more theatrical than it need be, seemed less dramatic than...
...role as the West's favorite son, Henry J. Kaiser has loudly and frequently demanded that the West must have cheaper steel. The eastern steel barons, said H. J. darkly, were deliberately keeping up steel prices just to keep the West in its industrial short pants. But last week, Kaiser was in a peculiar, and uncomfortable position. He had become the chief opponent to a cut in the price of steel from U.S. Steel's Geneva (Utah) plant...