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...Viscount Montgomery of Alamein last week chose this defense for a necessary reduction of German food rations in the British zone to a near-starvation 1,000 calories a day: "Germans gave the inmates of Beisen only 800 calories." Short, spare Montgomery added: "Big, overgrown Germans have got to tighten their belts...
...profits, basis of Perón's original draft), and the frank, understandable anger of management. Some employers would certainly refuse to pay, if only to test the constitutionality of the decree, but time had run out. A Supreme Court decision against the measure would merely tighten Perón's claims that all but he were foes of labor...
...Chubby Tory M.P. Robert John Graham Boothby, who all along had been against the loan, against unblocking sterling, against Bretton Woods, took one look at the U.S. offer, said it would mean "dismemberment of the British Empire." He asked Britons, whose belts have been tight for six years, to tighten them further, and predicted, "We can get through in any circumstances...
...none knew better than Lord Wavell that India was no longer content to remain plunged in thought. All Asia was astir. If Britain wished to keep India in her Commonwealth, she could only hope to tighten the bonds of Empire by loosening them...
...book, set as if it were verse (and with all staging directions eliminated), Corwin adds many lines that the program had no time for, changes a few broadcasting bowdlerisms (bejeepers becomes beJesus). But what makes the scalp tighten when backed by sound effects and Bernard Herrmann's excellent score and eloquent silences frequently looks tinselly in type. The eye sometimes misses the dramatic moment that Corwin skillfully devises for the ear: the sounds of underwater sloshing, a metallic pounding on a sunken sub, to ask the men inside if they've heard the V-E news...