Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home accountancy seemed to grow more harassing every year. And in mid-March, the man who had preferred not to think how much money the government was getting out of his check every week, had to face up to the spectacle of his tax total and sign his name beneath...
...Beneath the charges and counter-charges one fact seemed clear: if TV transmission should change tomorrow to UHF, all sets (including Zenith's) would require conversion to the higher frequencies. Zenith's point apparently was that its set could be converted more quickly and inexpensively than the others...
...Green, the consequences of a crime of weakness are as terrible as those of a crime of strength. A fire in Pelancey's shop destroys them: "They spoke to each other, incoherently . . . until the very last moment of life, holding firmly to each other as they lay there beneath the beams...
...Beneath a huge mural showing the temptation of Adam by Eve, tall, husky Dr. Ralph Bunche, acting U.N. mediator for Palestine, sat impassively at the head of the table, with a cigarette dangling, as usual, from his lips. Bushy-haired Dr. Walter Eytan of Israel's Foreign Office smoked a pipe. Both of the colonels from Egypt puffed cigarettes...
High spot of the show were twelve of the 16 famous drawings of imaginary carceri" (prisons). Tiny tattered figures cowered beneath enormous vaults and arches; huge spiked wheels ground inexorably; stairs spiraled up the dank walls to nowhere. In a world where nightmare prisons and melancholy ruins were once more an appalling reality, Piranesi's treatment of them hit as hard as ever...