Word: half-dozen
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...spring of this year the manpower shortage was everywhere: a half-dozen Congressional committees were howling, the War Manpower Commission listed 36 acute labor areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt called on his top drawer-Messrs. Byrnes, Leahy, Baruch, Hopkins and Rosenman-for an answer to the new problem. There came out long tables of nondeferrable occupations, threats about "work-or-fight," 48-hour-week ukases...
Hollywood and Broadway, lending his deft, poetic touch to a half-dozen top-flight musicals (On Your Toes, Louisiana Purchase, Rosalinda, Merry Widow...
These manifestations of justice in the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler were by no means isolated. The German press and radio are reporting a half-dozen or more such cases each day, to let the population know how badly some Germans are behaving, how ruthlessly the regime is punishing the slightest slip in wartime discipline. But to the rest of the world, this policy of revelation is a significant squiggle on the German fever chart, a new piece of evidence that Germany is weakening-militarily, politically, psychologically...
...with Johnny Black's royalties. Black hadn't left a record of any family connections, but someone thought he remembered that his aged father was still alive. Publisher Marks' manhunt finally tracked down one John L. Black, an 84-year-old living with a half-dozen other people in a cheap boardinghouse in Hamilton, Ohio. By the first of the year his accumulated royalties will...
Japan, gorged with Manchurian spoils but hungry for more, reputedly supplied advisers to Ma Chung-ying. Britain, whose Indian empire verged on the area of revolt, watched with interest. Within the Great Wall, Chiang Kai-shek was simultaneously fighting a half-dozen civil wars, trying to bring his bleeding country into readiness for war with Japan. He had no strength to spare for Turkestan...