Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent weeks the six-month strike at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.'s big plant in West Allis, Wis. had worn thin.* A back-to-work campaign had drawn about 3,000 of the approximately 10,000 workers into the plant, past the small groups of pickets of the Communist-led Local 248 of the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers. A-C's up-from-office-boy President Walter Geist (TIME, June 10) was winning with his strategy of playing for time. (Strikes in five other Allis-Chalmers plants had been settled with the hallowed 18½? wage increase...
...been stressing the full use of the outside men in the forward line and trying to get the team to stop trying to score on dashes through the center of the opponent's defense, a practice which he feels has cost the Crimson several goals so far thin season...
...imposed which forced the impecunious natives to earn white man's money. Later came a head tax of 20 shillings a year. Squads of police cruised nightly through urban "locations" (segregated residential quarters), routing all Negroes without poll-tax receipts. The penalty: jail, cuts with a thin bamboo cane-or a job in the mines. By 1938 the rural Europeans, who form 10% of the population, held 88% of the land. All adult male natives must carry passes-some of them as many as ten passes at a time...
Rifle butts hammered a midnight tattoo on hundreds of doors. Into the cold, dark streets poured nearly a thousand Jews, many of them in thin nightdress. For more than an hour they shivered in the crisp air while soldiers ransacked their homes, threatened with clubbed rifles any who protested. Ten foreign correspondents were whisked from the scene to the headquarters of a ruddy-faced, blond-mustached lieutenant colonel, who told them their presence was "embarrassing" to his men. The colonel called the Jews "'a despicable race," said (according to one report): "You know our boys sometimes use the butts...
...Shaw, as you know, is just turned ninety, and, while some of his work has remained with us in its original freshness, "Arms and the Man" contains much that has become somewhat thin from constant wear. This, combined with a production by Elliot Duvey and a Boston Tributary company of mixed abilities, files the stage with diversion not unpleasant but rather strained...