Word: sprawl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning they felt, as did many another painfully harassed U.S. citizen, that perhaps the U.S. had at last won a great battle at home-a prime requisite to winning the battles abroad that World War II may demand. At long last the President had moved decisively, whipping the vast sprawl of defense management into its first clear sense-making shape, dominated by an authoritative body called SPAB-Supply Priorities & Allocations Board. For the first time the President had delegated real authority, although he still jealously reserved his final say. On the 15-month anniversary of Defense he had at last...
...Public Interest. Governor Van Wagoner proclaimed that the public interest was involved. It certainly was. Not only were the jobs and wages of thousands of Michiganders involved; at River Rouge, whose buildings sprawl across 1,200 acres of Michigan land, their chimneys, tanks, furnaces, conveyors, cranes sprouting into the cold Michigan sky, men were beating ploughshares into swords-$122,000,000 worth. Already rolling off the bus assembly line were ugly, buglike reconnaissance cars ("Blitz Buggies") for the Army. Already in limited operation was a magnesium alloy foundry, turning out lightweight castings for airplane engines...
...story obliges the handsomely dressed Fonda to sprawl headlong twice over Miss Stanwyck's legs, tumble across a sofa and land with his face in a plate of hors d'oeuvres, take a drenching of hot coffee, receive a mess of roast beef and gravy in his lap, endure numerous other accidents. They are all funny. More importantly, Stanwyck and Fonda play throughout with a comic agility matching Sturges' frothy script...
...father was an intimate, and he has been a protégé, of Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen), who at 90 is almost a demigod. Prince Konoye is one of a handful who can come & go at the Imperial Household at will, and can sprawl in a chair before the Emperor. He is said to be the only man in Japan who has said no, pointblank, to Hirohito. He has been President of the House of Peers (1933-37) and Premier (1937-39). Imperial consorts and regents are picked from his family. Not even...