Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Senator Wheeler's speech, debate whirled on a thin point of interpretation: would U.S. agreements under Article 43 require approval by a two-thirds majority vote of the Senate, or by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress? The point was the nub of opposition strategy. If a two-thirds Senate vote were required, then the opposition might have a later chance. The point made odd allies. Administration men, such as Alben Barkley and Tom Connally, found themselves on the two-thirds side with Burt Wheeler...
...this time they could not spread the job evenly over a network of eastern roads. The enormous load had to be carried by the seven thin western lines which finger out from the midwest, snake through the high, twisting passes of the Rockies and drop down from the high sierra to the key ports of the West Coast, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland...
...dogweary railmen, still working an average 51-hour week, are spread so thin that there is no one to operate more trains. With rail wages as low as they are and the skills needed for many of the jobs as high, there is small hope of making these two ends meet. Many a railman is convinced that the wisest thing to do is to furlough railroaders from the Army. Unless that happens, the railroads are keeping their fingers crossed. At best, they expect the present squeeze on civilians to last until next spring. At worst, they wonder if the wire...
...Paris a small, thin Jewish boy from Budapest was learning to say the Pater Noster. Since he had come to live with French foster parents he had almost for gotten the old prayer, Mole ani lefa-neha...
...inspection in three days . . . I got enough to do to keep me truck clean without bothering too much about me person.") His weekly appearance in Yank was a popular one. But untraveled civilians who try to read 51 of his adventures at a sitting will find the laughs wearing thin. Author Brown himself puts a finger on the weakness of his book as civilian entertainment when he notes that Artie's "character was appreciated by those who were living with someone like him and listening to him every...