Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defense industries, was involved in the great majority of strikes. C. I. 0. President Philip Murray has declared : "Labor is ... just as loyal to the cause of America ... as any group in the country." Murray hates Communism with a deep hate. Nevertheless, as nobody can deny, a thin Red thread runs through C. I. 0. It is thin but tough, and Murray has been unable to get rid of it. It has tangled in many a situation, confused many an issue...
President Roosevelt had been set back. Day later, the Yugoslav leaders who had signed with Hitler were out of office, under arrest; King Peter II was on the throne. Crowds stood cheering, waving U. S., British and Yugoslav flags, before the U. S. legation in Belgrade. Youngish, thin-lipped Arthur Bliss Lane, U. S. Minister, had to push his way through overjoyed celebrators to carry his message to the new Government. Hitler, not Roosevelt, had been set back. But still bigger news for the long term was that U. S. foreign policy had begun to prove effective...
...cosmopolitan British force at Cheren was led, and its every move was planned, by a thin-faced, Mephistophelean-appearing figure, Lieut. General William Platt, 55. An old hand on Britain's practice field of war, the Indian North-West Frontier, General Platt has for three years been Raid d'Amm (Arabic for General Officer Commanding) of the Sudan.In two of those years, his dark hair went white. Raid d'Amm Platt, who always carries a fly-whisk instead of the usual stick, has been something of a heretic in his handling of native troops: he cannot...
Having long since trained his noted eyebrows to face whatever task the febrile fancy of Hollywood directors may dream up for him, Thin Man Bill Powell, unprotected even by mustache, warped resolutely into a wasp-waist coat, prepared to play a female role in his newest picture...
...weeks ago Dr. Raver took on his Biggest private adversary first. He was bald, thin-nosed Donald C. Barnes, president of Engineers Public Service, which owns Puget Sound Power & Light. No amateur fighter is Utilitycoon Barnes ; for 35 years his company has fought off purchase by Seattle City Light. But when Raver offered to buy out Puget Sound, Veteran Barnes (with Wendell Willkie's experience to guide him) knew the only real question would be price. Raver had another new weapon: SEC's tentative integration plan for E. P. S. (issued this month) implies that Puget Sound...