Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refused to play under those rules; only Salazar's candidates appeared on the ballots. German-trained political police pounced on opposition party headquarters, took recalcitrants to jail, snapped muzzles back on newspapers. 'Army officers who had enrolled in M.U.D. were demoted; "disloyal" students were flunked. Fear replaced brief hope as the country slipped lack into bitter, sullen acquiescence, with little chance that Salazar would ever make another gesture toward keeping his old promise that his dictatorship was merely a "transition." Salazar, at 57, had now become dictator for life, unless revolt unseated...
Over and above the businessman at the "Bee" School, there is a small smart set who, doffing the green eye shade for a few brief hours, wield the quill for relaxation. The result is four pages of chatter and patter, in the entrepreneurial manner, labelled. The Harbus News, Get it-Har....bus? Well, these journalists didn't like the monicker any better than the next Better Business Bureau...
...studying under the GI Bill of Rights. A graduate of Westbrook Junior College, Portland, Me., Miss Corrigan spent 18 months in the Navy. She is already acquainted with the mysteries of shorthand and typing, but finds her pre-war touch dulled by life in the service and a brief review necessary...
Udod's happiness was brief. Serafima made him sleep in a separate room. When the 20,000 rubles were spent, the girl's mother began yearning for the days when there had been no man in the house. Serafima's blue eyes gleamed; she could fix that easily enough. One morning when Udod was buckling his galoshes she bashed him over the head with a sharp piece of iron. Blood splashed on the walls. Serafima, a tidy girl, repainted the room...
Says Waugh: "It was an age replete with examples of astounding physical courage. Judged by the exploits of the great adventurers of his time, the sea dogs and explorers, Campion's brief achievement may appear modest enough; but these were tough men, ruthlessly hardened by upbringing, gross in their recreations. Campion stands out from even his most gallant and chivalrous contemporaries . ._. by the supernatural grace that...