Word: understatedness
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Young Bernstein saw his fellow G.I.s in every stage of training and battle. The hardboiled humor that sparkles on his pages is an understated testament to their spirit and courage.
> Comparisons with 1942 have been distorted by the fact that during last year most companies consistently overestimated taxes before the tax bill finally went through. Thus their first three quarters' earnings were understated, while the final quarter looked much fatter than it really was. And conversion problems earlier in...
Bombs Away. At 11:13 a.m. the first bomb bay opened. Chief target was the immense railroad marshaling yard about four miles from St. Peter's, two miles from the Forum, one and a half miles from the Fascist Government offices. The Allied communique understated: "The marshaling yard ... is...
This blanket conservatism was proper enough. But it understated the long-term outlook for some of the company's juiciest properties. I.T. & T. has poured $62,000,000 into Compañia Telefónica Nacional de Españia, famed in the Spanish Revolution for its indestructible Madrid...
When he followed two other crack men to a soldier's fate - Brigadier General Harold H. ("Pursuit") George had been killed last year in an accident at Darwin - air men spoke for him the air's understated epitaph of full praise: "He was a good man to have...