Word: intact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outbluffed the Argentines. Or the British may have made the most of Nazi connections with high Argentine officials (rumor mentioned even Perón himself). In any case, the sudden break of relations was a welcome relief for the British, since it made an embargo unthinkable, left British interests intact...
...department store, had some Spanish sherry, bought soon after the war started at ?33 a butt (100 gallons). A German bomb hit the warehouse where the sherry was stored. Harrods collected an insurance claim for ?45 a butt (covering insurance and other costs). Then the sherry, found intact, became the property of the Government. Harrods offered to buy it back at ?200 a butt. The Government refused the offer, demanded ?500 a butt. When Harrods declined to pay any such price, officials confidently looked around for other buyers...
...Island Intact...
Bizet's pulsing score remains intact-unswung, unsyncopated, unsentimentalized. (The recitatif has been ripped out, but Bizet did not write it: Carmen was originally a musical drama, not grand opera). Carmen's vivid plot remains unchanged. So does the inner nature of its people. But the scene of Carmen Jones is a U.S. Southern town where hip-swaying, head-tossing Carmen Jones works in a parachute factory. The Don José who wins her, loves her, loses her and kills her is a harassed M.P. corporal named Joe. The Micaela who loves and loses him is country-bred...
...when the A.E.F. was threatened with dissolution, he kept it intact and built it up into an American Army...