Word: unwound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strictly according to schedule the reels unwound. In this instalment the world was to learn what the Nazi-Communist Armies' division of Poland was to be. It found out (see p. 29). All manner of meaning lay upon that carving, who got what, and why; how closely Hitler and Stalin were collaborating, and for how long; in which direction, if any, Stalin planned to go-and here was the answer, more perplexing than the problem itself. Next question: What would Hitler say after he had conquered Poland...
...unwound his large and straightened up in his chair. "Say, I have seen you before somewhere," he accused her. "And my name is Vag! Now when was it?" he demanded...
Last week a play was produced in one prison while its author languished in another. At Sing Sing, Taken from Life unwound through 22 scenes, involved a murder defendant whose guilt or innocence the audience was pointedly asked to judge. In Tombs Prison in Manhattan, Playwright Arthur Chalmers, also charged with murder, still had ahead of him the verdict of a more orthodox jury...
...Westminster Abbey. As the four-ton gilded coach, similar to that in which King George & Queen Elizabeth will ride, rolled along behind eight horses with its Household Cavalry escort, policemen and soldiers snapped their heels to attention. Outside the Abbey, the procession halted while an imaginary Coronation service unwound itself, and officials with furrowed brows peered at stopwatches. On the cavalcade's return journey any wisps of sleep that still hovered over the 200,000 sightseers were swept away by the rousing brass of massed bands. Because the procession took 30 minutes longer than the schedule allows there...
...value of these is determined by their condition, which varies from day to day. . . . "I am opposing this committee amendment because I believe the attempt of the Department of Agriculture to establish minimum prices ... is an absurdity to the nth degree. ... By the time all this red tape is unwound here in Washington these perishable foods and vegetables will be consigned to the garbage...