Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latin American allies must not just sit tight behind the oceans and wait to be coventrized. Hemisphere defense must be aggressive defense. It must base itself on the British bastion as long as that bastion can hold out. This means continued aid to Britain without stint, but also without skimping vital U.S. needs...
...weeks, will be scripts on freedom in general by Stephen Vincent Benet, Sherwood Anderson, George M. Cohan, Ernest Hemingway. Not entirely indiscriminate in its praise of the U. S., The Free Company will include in its broadcasts a bit of salutary criticism, with Founder Boyd offering as his stint the fight of a worker against capital's frauds and labor's finks. But of the average shortcomings of the average citizen no mention was scheduled on the show...
Miss Hepburn's ambition was too pressing to be doused even by such a setback. After a short stint on the stage with Jane Eyre, she found herself with just what she wanted-a sophisticated play about high life in Philadelphia's Main Line society with a glamorous, smart-talking leading role especially stitched to her lovely measurements by her friend, Playwright Philip Barry. With the backing of a onetime suitor, Aviator Howard Hughes, she bought herself an interest in the play, including movie rights. It ran a year on Broadway is still going strong after six months...
Last week came a distinctly new angle on the forbidding duck-shaped island of the north. Source: 16 unpoetical Canadian soldiers who, after a stint in Iceland, had deteriorated to Class E, unfit for active service (mostly stomach ulcers), and had been repatriated to Canada, accidentally by way of the British Isles...
...knowing more extramarital yarns about cinemagnates than even the relentless Louella. Hedda was signed up for a Hollywood column three years ago on the recommendation of M. G. M.'s publicity office, soon established herself so firmly that she was inevitably wired for sound. Her radio and newspaper stint brings her an estimated $110,000 annually, over ten times what she made at the top of her acting career...