Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...range objective: the pound stopped its decline on the world's money markets. But they did not attack the deeper illness: the failure of British productivity to keep pace with world competition. In a nation where even Tories seem hypnotized by the problem of slicing up the available cake rather than increasing its size, the problem is seldom even discussed. But last week a stocky, grey-haired manufacturer named Harry Pardoe, from Lancashire's textile industry, spoke...
Finally, as a frosting on the cake, Curtice announced the first large-scale group life insurance program for U.S. auto dealers. The program, to be financed jointly by the company and G.M. dealers, will call for a $1 billion fund, provide up to $100,000 in low-cost life insurance (without a physical examination) for any G.M. dealer under...
...asking the audience to do some thinking, Time Limit! contrives a nice, new twist for a thriller. With the help of a good cast and production, it also provides much that is vibrant and tense. If the play has its shortcomings, the chief reason is the old have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too one. Time Limit! tries to be exciting and significant by turns, rather than the one by means of the other. A serious theme must often defer to a lurid plot: instead of an intensity that makes truth itself thrilling, there is an ingenuity that makes...
...Guglhupf zwa Zibeben So sitzen wir beinand' im Leben (Like two raisins in a coffee cake We sit side by side in life...
...take a sadistic pedant to insist that Chevalier's beggar changes character a little as he changes financial position, or to say that Ma Pomme contains several genuinely dull scenes. Such comments would be un-seasonal carpings, however, and their originators would richly deserve to choke on their fruit cake...