Word: unwind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second on the program is "Fumed Oak," a low pitched middle-class drama which almost succeeds by contrast to the first offering only to father at the final curtain when Coward steps the action dead to allow his here to unwind the lives of the participants. Philip Tonge and Miss Lawrence play off beautifully against each other, but they are helpless in the face of the recurrent Coward tendency to be patronizing to the lower classes...
...spry wife of a Swiss banker. When in bed, this attractive, possibly neurotic lady was in the habit of rolling up into a tight ball between one and two a.m. Mrs. Dickens resented the fact that only the "strokings and passes" of Hypnotist Dickens could induce her to unwind...
...Groceryman John Hartford was not the only one who lost money in Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt's 1939 radio ventures (TIME, June 25). Last week, as the Treasury Department, the Bureau of Internal Revenue and two Congressional committees tried to unwind the General's lighthearted deals, two other men-with-money-to-invest admitted that they also had lent Elliott money, most of which they never saw again...
...Administration began to unwind the rationing program. Gin was already flowing out of distilleries in place of war alcohol; whiskey was back on the dealers' shelves, in plain sight of the voters. And then Sept. 17 was set as the day when all processed foods except canned fruits and a few other items will be unrationed...
...Policy. WPBster Krug was more specific. As a starter, he junked the carefully nurtured policy of WPB's China-junketing chairman Don Nelson. Boss Nelson had held that WPB, which wound up the U.S. economy for war, should unwind it, coil by coil. Said Krug: let industry unwind itself into peacetime production in its own way. "Our private economy has to carry the ball. . . . It's not WPB's function to make work but to remove obstacles ... so that the ingenuity of management and know-how of the worker can go ahead. . . . There...