Word: shrift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pipe in his mouth, worked in his shirtsleeves, installed a typewriter at his desk on which to bat out ideas. Undergraduates soon began to cry "Hello, Joe" when they passed his house at night. He abolished fraternity rush week and undergraduate car-driving (because of the war), made short shrift of flunkers...
Bill Kissel, Ted Cohn, Bill Frothingham, Howio Ezell and Lin Burton made short shrift of their respective singles matches, and to Johnny Burton fell the distinction of playing the longest individual set of the afternoon before defeating his opponent...
Crying for quick action, 82% of the people, according to the latest Gallup poll, favor outright imprisonment of guilty "blacketeers." But Britain's eminent Solicitor General Sir William Jowitt, who knows more than anyone about the extent and ramifications of the black market, favored a shorter shrift. In a speech at Ashton-under-Lyne, he declared: "We have played with this thing long enough. ... I, for my part, would like to see war courts set up and people found guilty of the crime ordered to face a firing squad...
...beleaguered Europe, in blood-stained Russia, on the tank-tracked Libyan desert, above & below the earth's seas, Santa Claus was getting short shrift. Even in the U.S., his last, best hope on earth, Adolf Hitler and his hissing Japanese friends had tried to thwart him. But their attack came too late to destroy all the fruits of a U.S. Christmas. Now, more than ever, Americans were thankful for what they were about to receive. They were thankful, too, for Dumbo...
This sensational pre-World War II exploit is spoiled by a Nazi guard, who overpowers the Englishman. At Berchtesgaden the hunter's laconic explanation that it was only a sporting, not a shooting stalk, gets short shrift. An extra-special Nazi third degree fails to alter his story. Unable to get his signature to a faked confession that the act was an attempted assassination with the knowledge of the British Government, the Nazis fling him into the ravine and leave him for dead. He escapes to England...