Word: sinews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbia), a fair-to-middling melodrama about a pathological cripple, stars attractive Susan Peters playing her first part since she was crippled in an accident three years ago. As a scheming, power-mad young stepmother, she has quite a fat role, and deftly conceals its lack of genuine sinew behind her intense acting...
...composing rooms all over the U.S., printers sat on sawed-off chairs before tinkling linotype machines and spelled out the news: their A.F.L. International Typographical Union had just thundered its answer to the Taft-Hartley law. The act had outlawed the closed-shop agreements that were the bone & sinew of the I.T.U. So the 95-year-old labor union would simply sign no more contracts. Its 1,001 locals would post unsigned "conditions of employment," and would work as long as the conditions prevailed. Any publisher who rashly tried to alter the conditions-or to hire non-union printers-would...
...crowd yelled: "Let the Champ try!" "The Champ," the fourth rider, tried. He gave the now lolling head a tremendous jerk. But bone and sinew held...
...plan's prime point was that Germany should pay first of all with the bone & sinew of German industry-machines, stocks, tools, practically everything except factory buildings. Collecting in this way, the victors would simultaneously recover some of their war losses and weaken Germany's potential for future...
...Total defeat of the Wehrmacht, "for over a century ... the sinew of German pride." This operation, now accomplished, lays a psychological basis for a cure...