Word: cart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rangoon's City Hall, ascetic, chubbily handsome U Nu, just turned 50, publicly surveyed Burma's progress under socialism and found it bad. The government, with himself as "principal offender," declared U Nu, had made "terrible mistakes ... a series of blunders that resulted from putting the cart before the ox." The new solutions: 1) concentrate on the basic governmental task of establishing peace and order, 2) open up industrial enterprises to people with "profit motives," and 3) suspend all nonessential economic projects, including government projects that had encouraged "thievery and pilfering." "I do not wish," said...
...contains great jambalayas of jiggery-pokery about everything under the midnight sun, from atomic stockpiling (anti) to Zulus (pro). But the early passages about Miller at Big Sur-wuffling away at the wild waves, sitting in hot sulphur baths, dragging his groceries a mile and a half in a cart-are attractive to anyone with a notion to get away from it all. Unfortunately, into all such private Edens some pilgrims must come, and the Miller reader knows with a sinking heart that each will be a genius...
...cart will fall apart and the rider will drop into an Ivy model suit. Fetishism such as this is like an old school ring; when it begins to pinch, you leave it at home in your dresser drawer
...tell the living from the dead. Thousands of the area's 4,500,000 people, hungry and unemployed, huddle day and night in dank back alleys or sprawl on the sidewalks splotched red with betel spittle. The dead sometimes lie where they are for days before police vans cart them off to the burning ghats. The dying, picked up and carried from hospital to crowded hospital, used to be dumped back on the streets; there was simply no room for a hopeless case...
...from uncaged animals to human beings with purpose and pride. With two girls who were her fellow prisoners and a young Dutch seaman, she starts out on the long journey to her home in The Netherlands. The book becomes a picaresque adventure as the quartet travel by foot, horse cart, boat and truck. Along the way are Germans, sullen or penitent or self-pitying; Russians, busy "liberating'' wristwatches, bicycles and women; and a boisterous medley of all the races of Europe who had been penned into camps by the Nazis and are now moving deliriously toward their homes...