Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it came time to prepare resolutions, frazzled nerves began to pop. In the white-hot debate over OPA, one speaker shouted: "I used to be able to buy underwear with long legs and short sleeves for my husband, but manufacturers have stopped making such garments because...
...summer solstice, the year's shortest night, seemed short indeed to the diplomats and Parisian socialites passing the illuminated Vendome column. They pressed into Chez Paquin, where a fashion show and ballet celebrated a fateful meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers. The night seemed long to newsmen hanging around Suite 116 at the Hotel Meurice, watching the champagne buckets go by toward the room where Secretary Byrnes was entertaining Minister Molotov. In time the buckets came out empty-but no news came with them. Two U.S. Army privates guarded Byrnes's door, and just to be sure...
...Adolf Hitler started over twenty years ago!" Pravda's correspondent fished farther back in history, likened De Gaulle to President-Emperor Louis Napoleon. Leon éBlum, De Gaulle's most lenient critic, shook his head. "In France the step from presidential to personal power is all too short. . . ." Not a single responsible party leader defended Charles de Gaulle's gravest political mistake...
...Straw hats" are back in style. When war cut short the Great American Summer Vacation, summer stock companies began folding fast; some 125 were operating in 1941, only 25 last summer. Last week,100-odd-91 of them employing Equity actors (at a $46 weekly minimum)-were already onstage across the nation; others were lurking in the wings, ready to pounce on July vacationers...
...white females . . . the average length of life [is] 68.95 years, almost exactly one year short of the biblical three score and ten which . . . was not intended to represent an average, but rather the extreme of life...