Word: shrift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meat & Potatoes. He spent one semester cutting classes at the University of Southern California and dropped out. He gave Florida's tennis-happy Rollins College, which lured him with a scholarship, the same short shrift. He lasted exactly three hours on a potato-sacking job in a San Bernardino (Calif.) grocery store; now he has an elusive connection with a Los Angeles meat-packing firm, but never really works at it. Except for 40 months in the Coast Guard, he has never really worked at anything but tennis...
...managed to be at home often enough to keep his congregations happy. (He thinks he is the only living member of both the Dutch Reformed and Baptist Churches.) In 1927 he became editor of the Christian Herald, a slick-paper religious magazine which gives deep theological issues short shrift, keeps its religion simple and down to earth...
...partisans gave him short shrift. He was bluntly informed that he had been condemned to death. After a brief "trial," the 16 other Fascists in the Duce's party were also adjudged guilty. The Duce's last words as he faced the firing squad were...
Herded into the next room, the newsmen got the same short shrift from equally red-eyed Presidential Secretary Colonel Gregorio Tauber. "Gentlemen," he said, "the President and his ministers have made a decision which . . . joins the nation with her sister nations of America. . . . We have taken the grave resolution of declaring war on the Axis. Good...
There is no "world's best fighter plane." A mediocre low-altitude pursuit ship can give short shrift to a crack medium fighter caught hedgehopping. But for nailing enemy bombers and escorting friendly ones at really high altitudes (25,000 to 40,000 ft.), it looks as if the U.S. can now claim the title. So say the pilots who fly the Thunderbolt...