Word: shreds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week was China's Premier-though his every action as chief of civilian and foreign affairs must have the Generalissimo's watchful approval. In the task of coordinating and streamlining government, stepping up production, promoting constitutional reform, healing the breach between political factions. T.V. would need every shred of his talent for administration, negotiation, compromise, and plain getting-things-done...
...Bricker, old-line Republicans . . . Dewey young, but only physically. ... All wanting to go back to '29. Not one of them realizing what even the most stupid man in the street knows: that these are new times, enlightened times, progressive times. Not one of them with even a visible shred of social consciousness...
...soup in his path and the wrath of its owner who could imagine even more pleasant things that delicious minestrone in his lap. But the gushing curses faded into an incredulous stare. The Vagabond was breathing heavily--"inhale, exhale." "It's unfair," he murmured, the paper already a twisted shred. "It's inhuman," he howled, glaring with bloodshot eyes at his awestruck companion...
...Behind is ... testimony to the power of artillery: hole upon hole, fragment upon fragment, a worn shred torn from the Völkischer Beobachter, the soggy yellow bones of a hand, helmets, old shoes, pieces of steel, an unexploded stick of bombs, unidentifiable fragments...
...would. He points out that in copper, steel and other basic materials, price increases would not draw out really significant new capacity; he notes that in copper no price rise within reason would avert the necessity of copper imports, now averaging 25,500 tons a month; that almost every shred of present steel capacity is being utilized, even to moving Negro families out of old beehive ovens in the South. He points to the automobile industry's recent 20% production curtailment, says that if you tried to get the same diversion of capacity by letting prices rise, you would...