Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capital in an army plane, was met by 2,000 cheering Limeños and a military band. That night, in a kind of radio fireside chat, he talked vaguely of better times for labor, agriculture and the army, promised that elections would be held "after a brief transitional government." But he gave no assurance that Peru would continue the experiment in democratic government begun under Bustamante. (Said Bustamante in his farewell: "Democracy is like the sun; its eclipses are never permanent.") "Party politics," cried Odria, "poison the hearts of the people and sicken their minds." The military junta...
...Journal was not alone in feeling a sinking sensation. The Audit Bureau of Circulation, the admen's statistical bible, showed that the Saturday Evening Post and McCall's had also fallen below their circulation bases for brief periods during last spring's newsstand slump...
...became an invalid at 19 and died at 24. Until his death at 40, Poe's life had an appalling consistency of trouble-brief periods of success followed by long years of misery, quarrels with one after another of his backers, tigerlike leaps on his fellow poets for plagiarism, mud-slinging campaigns with rival editors. He drank, and at times took opium, stopped drinking whenever his work went well. Yet in each serious battle his enemies raked up the old stories, and in these letters Poe is constantly admitting his guilt and explaining that he has reformed...
...Brief Encounter. In Salem, Mass., Robert C. Carter sued for divorce, complained bitterly that his wife had deserted him a block from the church, two minutes after the wedding...
...team leaves by train this morning for Princeton and will hold a brief workout there before retiring to Plainfield for the night. It is Harvard's third and final road trip of the season; the first two resulted in losses to Cornell and Army...