Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joseph Goldstein and others who consider The Merchant of Venice anti-Semitic [TIME, April 4], I would suggest they . . . reread the play with the open-mindedness they ask of others. Viewed from the 20th Century, the Christians make a pretty poor showing, on the whole. It is they who suffer from delusions of grandeur and indulge freely in insults and jibes; it is they who . . . mouth words like mercy and justice, only to evade an honest bargain by means of a cheap legal trick...
Moscow policy was to sabotage U.S. war production. Dennis' man Christoffel was able to strike the plant and close it up tight for 76 days. Allis-Chalmers was then manufacturing machinery for war; the strike was one of the costliest work stoppages of the whole U.S. war-production effort...
...Ninth Floor. Three years have gone by since the hand fell on Dennis' shoulder. They were times to try the soul of a less artful dodger. Times were not good for U.S. communism. Organized labor, which had once been so tolerant of the whole business, had reacted violently against it. The party which had once controlled a good chunk of the C.I.O. unions, retained desperate control in only two big ones: the electric workers and the West Coast longshoremen. The alien cast of communism's face became plain for everyone to see. The disclosure of Communist espionage sent...
...five minutes before noon one day last week, the whole Pacific slope of the State of Washington, and border areas of Oregon and British Columbia, began to twitch. Seattle's 42-story L. C. Smith Tower and hundreds of lesser structures began to groan and sway. Automobiles waltzed crazily on highways. Bridges creaked. Chandeliers swung like pendulums. Dishes and bells set up a wild jangling. A million people simultaneously felt shallow-breathed fear...
...Twain sequence, however, is butchered almost beyond belief. The climactic total eclipse scene is so speeded up that the whole affair could easily be mistaken for a small but dark cloud passing in front of the sun. Hollywood, it seems, is so dreadfully afraid of boring its customers that it baffles them instead...