Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After long, exhaustive examinations Budapest neurologists told the 47-year-old poet that an egg-sized cyst webbed with tiny blood vessels was sprouting on the right side of his brain, back of his cerebellum. If he did not have it removed in ten days, they said, he would become paralyzed and blind...
...felt them wheel me under the lamp," he wrote. "I felt a succession of little pricks in a wide circle ... on my head. Then . . . one long horizontal incision at the back of my neck. This did not hurt me either. I felt soft gestures, as if my flesh were being opened and folded back...
Three hours after the operation began, when Dr. Olivecrona was delicately prying out the red tumor from the flaccid tissue of Karinthy's cerebellum, the poet lost consciousness. Three weeks later, after an uneventful convalescence, happy Poet Karinthy went back to his Budapest cafés, heard no more nonexistent locomotives. But two-and-a-half years after his ordeal he died of a heart attack...
Anti-New Dealers predicted and hoped that with Roosevelt on the run, and Government spending on the way out, private capital would go back to work, would more than make up investment-wise for the $3,000,000,000-odd of new Government money which the New Deal has pumped into the U. S. economy each year. Their hopes were raised when smiling, soft-spoken Acting Secretary of the Treasury John Hanes announced last week that business was doing fine, ". . . We are on the eve of what may be a real forward movement...
...quarter. New Dealers, certain of a slump, were last week in a mood to let events take their course in order to tell Congress afterwards "I told you so." If there is no slump-the shoe will be on the other foot. Rather than sit back and tell the country to watch Congress ruin it, New Dealers may yet decide to go their own way and claim credit for saving business from the fate to which they claim Congress has doomed...