Word: shredding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every Harvard man must be disturbed by the way in which, in your quotation of this morning from a Washington paper, President Conant's personal position in regard to the war was pictured as affecting the justice of his relations within the University. There is not a shred of basis for this imputation: and many would welcome it if the Crimson would express the strong feeling of Harvard on this point, since the University cannot but suffer when its president is defamed. William Ernest Hocking...
...week that followed his address to the nation-an address in which he had shucked off the last shred of U. S. neutrality-the White House was flooded with messages, voicing approval in a ratio of 100-to-1. Even the Baltimore Sun's Frank Kent, bitter critic of the New Deal, wrote: "There can be no doubt that the President has voiced what the great bulk of Americans have in their hearts...
...controlled the extremities of the Mediterranean, Britain's fight would be far harder, might be impossible. Without the oil fields of Iraq, without tenable naval bases in the Mediterranean to harry the Axis on its southern flank, without the help of the Moslem world and without the last shred of support in the Balkans, Britain would be hard...
...heat" was turned on in Brooklyn. With a shred of evidence here, an informer's tip there, O'Dwyer's men worked quietly & quickly, one by one rounded up a crowd of tightlipped, sullen men & women, took them into custody for questioning. Among them were two whose sullenness had more fear than courage: Abraham (Pretty) Levine, Anthony (Duke) Maffetore. Their fear was that they were going to be double-crossed, left by others to take the rap. They began talking. Foul was their story...