Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago, however, a county grand jury got wind of the Stoker recordings. The whole story burst across every front page in town. Triumphantly released from jail for a grand jury appearance, Brenda swept in, neat and businesslike in a tailored suit and dark glasses, began to tell all. $50 per Girl. She minced no words. Ever since she had moved into the upper brackets of her profession, she said, she had been paying $50 a week to her old friend Sergeant Jackson for every girl in her employ. And, she added with a vengeful slap at her persecutor...
...spoke about their captivity in various ways. "The Russian treatment was on the whole good," some would say with jerky glances over their shoulders. "I say join the Communists in Japan, but I want to wait and see what conditions are really like first." At times, when one of the dyed-in-the-wool Communists passed, the voices would die to a murmur...
...began with President Eugene R. Black's announcement that the bank planned to lend Colombia $5-$10 million, possibly before the survey is finished. But the experts, said Black, will range far beyond the projects the bank may decide to finance. At government invitation, they will examine the whole Colombian economy, choosing the likeliest places where private investment, under Point Four auspices, might come in and help in the job of developing the country's resources...
...young black bull, whose whole world had been the unpeopled, machine-less range, the two jeeps were a startling sight. When the jeeps came through the gate, the bull glared suspiciously and trotted off across the wide pasture of Mexico's La Punta, the world's biggest ranch for raising toros bravos (brave bulls). The jeeps bounced after him in hot pursuit. They were out on a tienta, a test of fighting quality (with modern trimmings), on which all things at La Punta depend...
...commission concluded that the National Union of Journalists' talk of blacklists and fears about monopoly were exaggerated: "There is nothing approaching monopoly in the press as a whole." But it noted that in 58 of 66 towns with daily newspapers, there was no competition except from London's nationally circulated papers. The commission warned: "We should deplore any tendency on the part of the larger chains to expand...