Word: unwind
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...wound up" the war economy should unwind it, Messrs. Baruch & Hancock have implied that overall reconversion policies can best be set by an agency acting under Presidential directive...
...Japanese from California after Pearl Harbor. He was there last week, with several hundred other battle-weary U.S. airmen, resting in the luxury of the former Edgewater Beach Club, now an Air Forces redistribution center. Like his comrades, he slept late, guzzled orange juice and fresh milk, tried to unwind and get toned...
...work out a plan to let the contractor shunt the equipment out immediately after his contracts are canceled. He may store it at his own risk. Other such knotty problems will be taken up in the same step-by-step fashion. The step that had been taken to unwind the U.S. war machine was a small step-but the important fact was that it had been taken...
...second and last company smoker, tentatively slated for Thursday, December 23, should produce another evening of robust entertainment. . .among the repeaters from the first smoker will be G.L.Mason--of the tune-writin' Masons--Hershberg and company, and, of course, the inimitable Lagerquist. . .Lagie is expected to unspin, uhreel, unwind, bring forth with another of those tall, highly colorful, highly humorous yarns, tales, anecdotes, whoppers, whew...
...lugging his camera far & wide, cranking away on scenes of commercial fishing in Holland (The Breakers), mining in Belgium (Borinage), fighting in Spain and China (Spanish Earth, The 400,000,000). Trying to sell his product in competition with the fast freight from Hollywood has taught Ivens he must unwind his factual, sometimes statistical, accounts without making his reel resemble a Fitz-Patrick Travelogue or a photostatic copy of a balance sheet...