Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greater reserves in Europe than we have, both in manpower and materiel. We spent more than a year in building up the superior and better-equipped armies which we threw into the Battle of France. By the time they got to the Siegfried Line they were spread thin and were spending materiel almost as fast as it reached the front. Now our reserves of men, arms and transport must come thousands of miles from an America that is fighting another war in the Pacific. Germany, on the other hand, has withdrawn almost to her own frontiers and can switch reserves...
...such, 1944 would take its place in the economist's gallery alongside other statistically famous vintage years: 1913, 1926, 1929, 1939. But even these were thin, sour wines alongside the full-blown, fabulously rich year of 1944. The cold figures, such as the gross national product of $196 billion, were almost too big to grasp. The significant fact of the year was that the U.S. could pour out some $90 billion for war, and another $100 billion for consumer goods and services (see chart...
They looked so cold-were they comfortable? Nun ja, it was not nice. Too much noise in the hut. And the soup was too thin. But surely the camp authorities would arrange better quarters...
Died. George Higgins Moses, 75, caustic, critical Republican Senator (1918 to 1933) from New Hampshire; of coronary thrombosis; in Concord, N.H. A Greek and Latin scholar, thin-lipped, Maine-born Senator Moses specialized in the crushing word. Sample phrases: "sons of the wild jackass" (insurgent Western Senators); "four more years of diminuendo" (on the re-election of Calvin Coolidge). Buried by the 1932 Democratic landslide, he remained thereafter, in his own phrase, "only a nuisance value to the Republican Party...
Keating's creators were small, witty James B. Hill and big, sandy-haired John L. Eckels, advertising-agency copywriters. They dreamed up Keating to win an argument that political bigwigs are built by publicity, that they could create a tycoon in their own business out of thin air. They spent $4 on letterheads, sent publicity releases to newspapers and magazines, invented companies and clubs for Keating to address. When the American Newspaper Publishers Association and Dun & Bradstreet Inc. requested financial statements, Authors Hill and Eckels decided the hoax had gone far enough...