Word: breathingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual report, published last week, Research Director Solomon Fabricant implied that the idea that business moves in up and down swings-the theory on which the statistical indexes are based-may no longer apply. The U.S. may well be moving in to a type of economy that pauses for breath, with little or no expansion, before it surges up again...
...austerity, purchases last year cost $184 million more than Argentina's foreign sales brought in. That left not a centavo to spare for catching up on power and fuel needs. Both were jobs that private foreign capital, if welcomed, would like to try. But Aramburu, feeling the hot breath of prideful nationalism, has not given the invitation. The $500 million, U.S.-owned American & Foreign Power Co. Inc. offered last December to invest $145 million and double Buenos Aires' power supply. Argentina declined. With all too little exaggeration, one power expert predicts: "By 1960 you'll be going...
After the maudlin sentimentality with which our newspapers treated the demise of a man who occupied one of our Senate seats for eleven years, TIME'S account was like a breath of fresh, clean...
...century. The great pottery works of the Sung emperors were revived and expanded. For Emperor Hsuan-te's Dragon Soup Bowl, craftsmen ground rubies to powder to achieve richness of color; court ladies dipped their fingers into exquisite candy dishes for the cardamoms and nutmegs that served as breath sweeteners. Jade was in such demand that by the time of the Manchus there were thousands of workmen carving and polishing objects, many so precious that they were used only for display...
Impresario Hoffnung hopes soon to introduce his music to the U.S. live, by staging a similar production in Manhattan. Meanwhile, his record remains the funniest musical joke in years. "A breath of fresh air," said one London critic. "I admired particularly the coloratura attack and secure intonation," said another, speaking of a vacuum-cleaner player...