Word: doubledealing
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Shot Directly? In the pubs there was wild talk that "blacketeers" should be shot, preferably along with brass hats and Government officials smudged from the disastrous campaigns in Norway, France, Crete and Singapore. The British had always groused-it was their national small talk-but rarely had so many groused...
Some stores bought so much so fast that they were almost unable to pay. Most of them squeezed through with short-term loans from local banks. But others borrowed in the open: Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. (which had over $5,000,000 cash last August) six weeks...
> Beeswax needs of the Army and Navy, running into thousands of pounds yearly, have been doubled (so has the price). Beeswax is smeared as waterproofing over shells, airplane surfaces, ropes, canvas, gaskets, etc. To up war production, apiarists will have to let their bees build more combs (instead of having...
The beat of a healthy heart is lūbb-dūpp: a hollow boom as the ventricles contract to pump blood, followed by the soft snap of the closing of valves to the aorta and lungs. Weak, doubled, out-of-step or extra sounds mean trouble.
Equally alien is Caldwell's account of an efficiency of desperation which might drive Americans mad but seems to work in Russia. Prize samples: 1) On the trunk highway from Moscow to Smolensk, an unbroken line of supply trucks moved day & night at a constant 20 miles per hour...