Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight. Despite all the talk about economizing, the House had only pecked away at the President's own bloated budget. The Senate in turn had only pecked away at the House's appropriations; more frequently the Senate had actually increased the sums recommended by the House. A small, bipartisan bloc of economy-minded Senators had fought steadily for 5%-to-10% cuts, but just as steadily a Senate majority had overruled them. The discouraged economizers tried the only course left to them. They tried to pass the buck back to the President...
Coals & Ditches. Pilot Barsov took a small, cramped room in Brooklyn, got a $1-an-hour job pressing coats in a clothing factory. Then he signed on as an unskilled laborer in Stratford, Conn. Boris Labensky, an engineer at the Sikorsky Aircraft plant, took him into his home. For eight weeks, Barsov lived with them while he dug ditches for drain pipes. It was a bitter comedown for an officer...
Underneath the issue of who had the best war record, or even who was related to the best war record, the adversaries were dueling with the kind of small arms and fieldpieces most Democrats and Republicans would be firing in next year's regular congressional elections. So far, most political wiseacres were betting on Mrs. Coffey to win in next week's election, but she had proved so ineffectual a campaigner that it might be close...
...Matter of Health. The two statesmen did not feel as chipper as they looked. For one thing, their personal health was not good. Just back from a Swiss resort where he had been treated for a digestive ailment, Cripps took austere vegetarian meals at a small table in the ship's dining room. As a fellow sufferer under doctor's orders, Bevin dieted in his cabin-nothing but boiled fish, poultry, milk puddings, custards. Between meals they wrestled together with the bigger problem of Britain's economic health...
...Robert Ryan plays a courageous pug at the brutal end of a small-time fight career (TIME, April...