Word: borings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrary, it turned them into bigger brutes." Soon Chekhov was warring with every Tolstoyan tenet, particularly the idea that "Christian love was incompatible with sexual love." And just who, demanded Chekhov, were these wonderful peasants Tolstoy was always talking about? He himself had "peasant blood in my veins" and bore the marks of peasant beatings What did the count know about such things...
Hopelessness. Six months later, alone in Moscow, Clara bore a son, who was named Nicholas. Nervously keeping in touch from London as the months went by, Alf Hall watched Moscow's colony of 34 British brides dwindle to six. Eighteen somehow got out of Russia; ten divorced their husbands and melted back into the Russian throng; two would not get divorces, but did not want to go abroad; three simply disappeared. One of these three was kidnaped as she left a movie at the U.S. embassy and was whisked off to prison on unstated charges. Another...
...white frame building in Ashland (pop. 8,000), Ore. one afternoon last week, some 140 people packed into seats in a low-ceilinged, fetid room 30 ft. square. Many wore bandages or held to canes and crutches. Some bore the grimace of chronic pain. But all stood up when a thin, wrinkled woman in white nurse's uniform and fancy-print apron with prominent pockets came...
...leadership. Investment trusts, for instance, which have been switching out of such stocks as autos, steels, rails and farm equipment-those most vulnerable to any recession-have been going in for utilities, foods, tobaccos. And the fact that some investment trusts were buying the stock of personal loan companies bore out the fact that changing conditions always bring new opportunities in the market, such as the bank stocks' benefiting by the Government's higher-interest policy...
...what they called it: isolated soft spots. Some of the biggest, like Du Pont's President Crawford H. Greenewalt, were strongly optimistic. Said Greenewalt: "There is in my opinion no more reason to credit current pessimism than there was to take to the woods in 1945." The facts bore him out. Business was still expanding vigorously, as evidenced by A.T. & T.'s plans to offer $625 million in convertible debentures, the largest single new financing issue in U.S. corporation history...