Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teacups & Christmas Trees. Fires were raging the length & breadth of Seoul, the result of vandalism, carelessness, or both. The Bon-Chong, the old black market, went up, and with it went at least three square blocks of ramshackle stores and dwellings. By 9 p.m. the fires were sending showers of sparks cascading down on the steel-shuttered U.S. Embassy and on the tile-roofed Chosun Hotel, where a South Korean flag hung limply in the cold. The hotel itself was completely deserted. The staff had fled during the day, and the building had the queerly disturbing air of a ghost...
...persistent habit of MacArthur's communique writers in jazzing up their bulletins with bumptious prose. Some sampie phrases from last week's communiques: carrier-based planes made attacks that were "slashing" and "in close support of embattled ground troops"; they "swarmed over the entire breadth of Korea." The Navy's shelling was "pinpoint bombardment...
...board controls were in the cards, finally admitted that food prices could not be controlled satisfactorily without a change in the law.) Meanwhile, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that food prices as of Dec. 15 had jumped 3.2% in a month, to within a hair's breadth of 1948's alltime high; by last week the index was probably at a new peak...
Alger Hiss was near the end of his road. Last week a U.S. court of appeals decided there was enough believable evidence of his guilt. The "breadth and scope" of Whittaker Chambers' testimony against him had been "adequately substantiated," said the court. Nor could the court find any reversible errors in his second trial, which ended last January, in Hiss's conviction for perjury on two counts...
With such reflections in his head, Francis Stuart has been reconsidering the life & times of himself and his I.R.A. friends. Redemption, a feverish search for a new "breadth of understanding," is the product of that reconsideration. Though written in the overwrought, pseudo-prophetic manner of D. H. Lawrence's later novels, it is a fascinating book. Its central character, a tempest-tossed Irishman named Ezra Arrigho, has spent the war in Germany and has just returned to Ireland to settle down in a little town. What can he say of it? Scornfully, Ezra decides that most of its people...