Word: twitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the British Broadcasting Corp., in its French-language message to Europe, warned listeners against rumors of landings and predictions of landings, which "are spread by the enemy to create discouragement." Added BBC, giving nerves a final twitch: "The success of a military operation depends on the secrecy that surrounds it. This secret is jealously kept by the Allied General Staff...
...sugar rationing had been clamped over the U.S. sweet tooth with hardly a twitch from the nerve. But now OPA's drill burred deep into the rawest nerve of the U.S. citizen. Getting to work and home again was a tough problem; getting shopping done and business trips made was suddenly a matter of elaborate planning...
...even though President Roosevelt reassuringly proclaimed that "the Government of the United States will not order, nor will Congress pass legislation ordering, a so-called closed shop," industrialists were far from satisfied. The N.A.M. glared stonily at the War Labor Board, watched for a suspicious twitch in any direction...
Last week N.A.M. thought it saw that twitch. WLB had settled two disputes (Walker-Turner, International Harvester) by ordering "maintenance of membership," which the N.A.M. believed was a "sweet-sounding" name for the closed shop...
This freight train of boxcar numbers was too much for editorialists, who tiptoed away, began talking of something else. The New York Times told its readers: "It is more profitable ... to discuss objectives and principles." The New York Herald Tribune simply gave up without a twitch, headlined its budget editorial: "Next: A Real Production Head...