Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called Life. Just as history seemed to be jostling Europe to a new war, the author of Tropic offered to abolish history. The book displayed life as a perpetual riot of gabble and rut in which Narrator Miller kept a bouncer's hard eye for anyone likely to break up the party. Its explosion was timely, but the shock wave passed quickly. Now Miller seems as drably dated as one of his favorite writers, H. Rider (She) Haggard, another man who "wrote at the top of his voice...
...break differed from previous shake-outs in one notable way: trading volume was light, never more than 2,600,000 shares daily, v. a 5,000,000-share day during the September selloff. Instead of a rush to sell, the drop was caused more by a reluctance to buy, notably by the big investment trusts whose purchases had pushed the blue chips so high. But Wall Streeters guessed that the 10% drop in prices, which had put the market in the same position where it had found strong support in the last two big corrections (see chart), had made some...
...lessening of overall buying, since employment (66 million) and paychecks are at a peak. Retail sales are 3% above last year, and Philip M. Talbott, president of the National Retail Dry Goods Association (8,000 department and specialty stores), said that he expects this year's sales to break last year's record...
...plot, worked up by Kubrick from a novel (Clean Break) by Lionel White, tells the familiar story of a stickup. Led by an ex-convict (Sterling Hayden), six men put the heist on a race track, but even though the tote is $2,000,000, the script fixes things so that crime does not pay. Nevertheless, the plot produces a gut-clenching suspense and plenty of surprises -pulled out of the hat alive and kicking...
...from precarious footholds, step by straining step. Chief of the trackers is a Chinese John Henry nicknamed Old Pebble. Old Pebble is a kind of mythic Nature Boy who can chant his weary men through a rough gorge or leap into the treacherous waters to unsnag the towline and break surface with it like a trout...