Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sally Rand's time-honored fandangling and bubble-cuddling suddenly struck San Francisco police as indecent. They arrested her - twice in one week. Topping off the priceless publicity, the judge took a look for himself. Upshot: charges dismissed...
...otherwise routine little wartime musicomedy is about life & love in the U.S. Coast Guard-i.e., another late-arriving salute to the services, featuring singing Tar Alfred Drake, dancing Tar Marc Platt and Cinemactress Janet Blair, who is pretty and Spar-slim in a seagoing blouse and skirt. The upshot of the whole thing is predictable until Tar Sid Caesar, a product of Yonkers and the City of New York, lets loose with the most overwhelming spate of gobbledygook since the Johnstown Flood. He may possibly have caught the act of another fast doubletalker named Danny Kaye, but his scrambled...
...upshot was that the President got exactly what he wanted: Stalin's definite pledge to come in on a definite date (August 15, said the best available sources). Now, whatever the political implications to be faced later in Asia, the U.S. armies would not have to help the Chinese dispose of Japan's formidable forces in Manchuria, and Japan's last chance to prolong the war had disappeared...
...Heinies for refusal to follow work orders it is no more than nine million other guys in our Army have been yearning to do for years." In Boston and New York, Hearstlings set "storm of protest" experts to work, got shocked statements from statement-givers, bombarded Congressmen with telegrams. Upshot: Private McGee was reinstated. (Other newspapers went along cautiously; some suspected that there might be something wrong with a private of seven years' standing...
Having played out this sorry and expensive farce in Newark, the federal antitrust attorneys now have the facts about plastics. Their probable next step will be to start a civil suit. A typical upshot would then be an amicable consent decree, with the defendants promising to discontinue certain pricing practices that appear unjustified...