Word: skeins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ultraconservative, Red-hating Sir Walter Citrine. As late as a fortnight ago, Sir Walter still had his doubts about W.F.T.U. But at Paris Russia's Michael P. Tarasov was most conciliatory. Between the Communists and the Citrine group, the C.I.O.'s wily Sidney Hillman threaded a complex skein of compromise...
...Pennsylvanians are breathing fire. After they had won five successive League engagements to lead the loop, and compiled a neat 13-game winning skein, up popped Cornell at Ithaca Saturday night, with a record of only two triumphs in 15 contests, and plastered the Quakers 35 to 30. So the Pennmen will be in no mood to dilly dally...
...Tangled Skein. Death came to the Admiral just six weeks after he had taken over the government of French
...progress of the U.S. campaign had been sped. But Darlan's assumption of power had also unleashed a storm of anger and criticism among Allied peoples, widening dangerously the already existing split between the supporters of Vichy and De Gaulle. It had involved the U.S. in a tangled skein of international politics which was becoming more & more involved. Termed by President Roosevelt a "temporary expediency," the Darlan regime was gaining a firmer foothold with each...
Following a long skein of sex-laden productions, the Fine Arts' latest offering is a program more in keeping with its name. The job of compressing 1000 pages of Feodor Dostoevsky's two best novels in to four hours filmfare is almost impossible, but the two features, one in French, the other in German, nearly succeed in their task...