Word: coastering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Easily the most important of these threats was the first. The romantic roller coaster of the Burma Road is China's best-publicized and most spectacular lifeline, but it is desperately vulnerable to air attack. Because a single lucky or well-aimed bomb can back up several days' traffic in no time, Chiang Kaishek's Government has in recent months depended increasingly on the flow of goods through Kwangtung Province, southernmost in China...
TIME has erred again in reporting the death of James Joyce (Jan. 20). Who but Joyce could have written your article entitled "Up the Roller Coaster" with its "patient, powerless, hopeful meaninglessness" and its "humping dizzily up that first clanking climb...
...might be inflation, a credit expansion out of sight and beyond control, rationing, priorities, guns-before-butter, taxes to ruin every season in the year. The one thing anyone could be sure of was that the U. S. was humping dizzily up that first clanking climb of the roller coaster on the way to a screaming whoosh beyond. Maybe everything was quiet, pleasant and peaceful on the other side-but people guessed...