Word: spate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposals brought a spate of angry letters to the Times. The gist: "There is surely enough for the church to do within its own accepted field." One defender of the Archbishop popped up with a retort from the late G. A. ("Woodbine Willie") Studdert-Kennedy, best-loved British padre of World War I: "Nobody worries about Christ so long as He can be kept shut up in churches . . . but there is always trouble...
...innocent than those in the Hays Office, lures him once more into a psychological betrayal of Brother Kirk. Then the action shifts to Bataan. A swift fadeout, filled with the keening crescendo of an enemy shell, ambiguously ends the lovers' fitful fever as Jonny finishes dictating a bangwhang spate of headline copy to his newspaper...
...victory over Japan cannot be found in comparative naval tonnage, air strength, gun power, speed or armor. It lies, says Kiralfy, in a closer study of the Japanese mind, especially in its military workings. Americans have never been very curious about the Japanese mind, and the spate of books on Japan (with the notable exception of Hugh Byas' The Japanese En-emy} has not been very helpful. They have reported Japanese militarism, atrocities, the absurdities of Emperor worship, the inflammability of Japan's paper cities, the inability of Japanese industry to implement a modern war. Few recent...
...alphabetically led off the member nations. Descendant of an autocratic Spanish family and stubborn stickler for legal details, he is temperamentally simpático with Acting President Castillo but out of tune with popular sentiment. Officially quiet under "state-of-siege" orders, Argentines began the New Year with a spate of "last-time" hilarity, as if they realized there might be significant changes by New Year...
...money he was used to. Yet OPM promised to solve one problem by dishing its defense orders out in bigger hunks. Most of Detroit's munitions work so far has been supplementary to automobiles, done in small amounts and in new and separate plants. A really big spate of orders will force the conversion of present automaking plants, tools and man power. Chevrolet, which got a new $89,075,000 War Department contract for 1,000 Pratt & Whitney airplane engines a month, has already prepared to convert all of its automobile facilities in Buffalo and Tonawanda to their manufacture...