Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most important factors are: 1) a shortage of skilled manpower, as in most U.S. industries; 2) government rationing of shellac (which comes from India) at 20% of prewar needs; 3) wear & tear on nonreplaceable machinery; 4) lack of adequate transportation and packing facilities...
...pair of robbers, escapes some dog-catchers by a crippling leap from an upstairs window, completes her hundreds of miles of faithful cross-country just in time to greet her young master just as he gets out of school. The meeting is an unusually valid bit of tear jerking...
...best beef breed. Black Angus breed ers with about 40,000 registrations annually, who include some of the best promoters in captivity, are going to applaud you to the skies. But the Hereford boys with over 200,000 new registrations are going to tear the Time & Life Building to pieces. The Shorthorn breeders, 50,000 registrations, will start their own blitz to be joined by the Devon, Polled Hereford and Red Polled...
Wrote De Luce: "They urged quick dispatch of American and British troops across the Adriatic and promised the people would gladly tear out their vineyards to make landing strips. . . . They argued also for sending grain, beans, rice and medical . . . supplies to Partisan areas where the population is facing hunger and disease. . . . 'But arms are the most important of all. We can fight without food but we cannot fight without arms...
...kidney cases, but the majority are drunks. They range from chronic alcoholics with the d.t.s, who have to be nursed back to health over a period of weeks, to women guests with a one-drink hangover. Some of Dr. Ellsworth's drunks are sorrowful, some are noisy and tear up the room, some come to the hotel for regular binges four or five times a year, some are just funny: e.g., one time Dr. Ellsworth, thinking a drunk was out cold, was telephoning for a nurse when the patient snatched the phone and shouted: "Send one with long fingernails...