Word: shunt
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...interest in democracy, now that the brave new post-war world has reared its ugly head over the land of squeeze. Elections will not be held before next December, so party hacks have plenty of time to arrange for a safe majority. In the meantime, the Kuomintang had to shunt off insinuations and questions concerning "one-party rule...
...single winter to clean snow from its streets. If artificial snowmaking proves effective, meteorologists will watch for supercooled clouds bearing down on a city. Airplanes will give them the dry ice treatment, making them dump their snow outside the city limits. Perhaps, if ski-minded, the weathermakers can shunt the snow to winter resorts...
...Bailey bill, which empowers local draft boards to shunt men (including 4-Fs) aged 18-45 into essential industries and keep them there, was tht only legislation in sight. It was a little bedraggled by the time, last week, the House Military Affairs Committee hung it with its last amendment and finally reported it out. Now on the floor of the House, even this mild, makeshift measure faced an uncertain fate...
...Jesse Jones culminated the biggest undercover political battle which Washington has seen in many a year. From the very day of election, Franklin Roosevelt's biggest political debt was to Henry Wallace and the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, whose hero he is. All efforts to shunt Wallace aside in the Department of Labor came to nothing. Wallace supporters felt that, politically speaking, he would be wasting his time there. Wallace could have what he wanted; what he wanted was Commerce and the lending agencies, with their titanic power in the U.S. economy. His party leader paid...
...that problem Baruch and Hancock are now training their artillery. They hope to work out a plan to let the contractor shunt the equipment out immediately after his contracts are canceled. He may store it at his own risk. Other such knotty problems will be taken up in the same step-by-step fashion. The step that had been taken to unwind the U.S. war machine was a small step-but the important fact was that it had been taken...