Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Directly challenging the Trade Disputes Act of 1927 (enacted soon after the 1926 general strike), the Union of Post Office Workers last fortnight applied, and was promptly accepted, for affiliation with the British Trades Union Congress. The Trade Disputes Act specifically bars civil servants from joining the T.U.C. Grizzled, thin-lipped Sir Walter Citrine, T.U.C. chief who looks more like a schoolmaster than a tough-minded labor boss, had fired the first shot against the Act which all labor regards as the blackest piece of legislation on the British statute book...
Beyond the Mountains. Chungking was 300 miles away from the battle, and finger-thin gorges and towering peaks lay between the Japanese and the Chinese capital. Chungking was not threatened nor in any immediate danger...
...world of V-Day is no richer in applied wisdom than the world of M-Day, this further calculation can be made. There will be no way except charity to put Europe quickly back on its feet again. International charity must inevitably soon run thin. When the U.S., for one, ceases to give goods away it will suffer from unemployment, despite and because of its vastly expanded productive capacity. Moreover, European and Asiatic collapse will be on a far greater scale than they were when U.S. relief and financial first aid dried up in the early...
...said in a hollow voice. "I see you sitting alone at a table at the Walnut Cafe. You are bald but except for that you haven't changed much." (My hair is getting thin, but I try to ignore it. Shad is so blunt.) "Strapped to the top of your bald head, you have a small microwave radio receiving and transmitting set. You radio the waiter for a scotch and soda. At a nearby table there is a terrific blonde. She is wearing a radio set on her head too. It is made, like a smart feminine hat, embroidered with...
Small, slightly built, grey-haired, with thin drooping cheeks, Baillie has a somewhat weary air, resembles an undersized, underfed St. Bernard dog. But as soon as he speaks in his crisp, incisive Highland voice, the listener is aware that he is a man of unassuming but confident mental powers. His fame, as the Duke said in his tribute, stems from his four-fold talents as "scholar, teacher, preacher and author." (Best-known books: Invitation to Pilgrimage; And the Life Everlasting...