Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Erhard reacted typically, alternating threats with exhortation. To unions he pleaded for deferment of wage demands, simultaneously made threatening noises about compulsory savings. To employers he talked of production norms and price ceilings. When unemployment topped 1,500,000, he beat off a censure move in the Bundestag by a scant majority. "Your policy," jeered Socialist Erik Nolting, "only makes the rich richer and the poor poorer...
...prodded, exhorted, bullied, preached productivity and sleepless enterprise as the ticket to German recovery. He offered generous tax concessions for enterprisers who would build new plants, other tax inducements to those who could sell their products abroad. He used his power to reduce tariffs and import quotas to beat down the raw-material prices for Germany's expanding factories, boldly encouraged the importation of such "incentive" goods as Dutch cheeses, French lingerie, Spanish oranges and Swiss watches. He encouraged builders by lifting rent controls. Under his guiding and goading, production doubled in the first year after Erhard turned...
After the heart and both lungs were transplanted. Dr. Webb reported, the "spare-part" heart soon took over and kept beating as long as 28 hours before the experiment was abandoned. But the animal could not breathe by itself, without the aid of the lung machine, because the transplanted lungs had no nerve connections. If only the left lung was transplanted, the recipient's right lung still had nerve connections to transmit the breathing reflexes. In dogs so treated, the transplanted heart beat normally, and the unmatched lungs breathed, for as long as 18 hours...
...Cave Dwellers (by William Saroyan) are broken-down performers camping out in a crumbling, abandoned East Side theater. A done-for boxer, a beat old clown, an ailing old actress are joined by a sweet young girl and a man with a trained bear and a wife who gives birth to a baby. By day they lie abed, or street-beg, or in desperation steal milk. By night they act out their old roles, philosophize, soliloquize, dramatize the day's rebuffs, fall asleep and dream...
...answer the telephone. Through go-betweens, Sachiko, the No. 2 sister, sets up miai after miai−get-acquainted sessions with prospective suitors and their families. But Yukiko seems to be jinxed. In the meantime, Taeko, the youngest sister, who represents modern Japan's off-beat generation, scandalizes the family by running off with one man, then taking another lover, and finally getting pregnant by a bartender...