Word: cranes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, when Berryman had finally completed a book about Hart Crane on which he had worked for a long time, he enjoyed only "one or two" days of relaxation on Cape Cod with his wife before he began to worry about how the book would be reviewed...
...came forward. "It had been only yesterday, in the 1930s, that the big realistic novel, with its broad social sweep, had put American literature on the world stage for the first time," Wolfe writes, apparently forgetting such pre-1930s writers as Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser. He adds that while five of the first six American Nobel laureates in literature were what he describes as realistic novelists (Pearl Buck, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck), by the '60s young writers and intellectuals regarded their kind of realism as "an embarrassment...
...Kraus says his legislative experience gives him a personal motivation for seeking the office that Robert Q. Crane has held for the past 25 years...
Victims of the collapse included Ronald Yoder, 37, who lost his job as a crane operator when Fruehauf shuttered its Fort Wayne, Ind., trailer plant in 1987. Yoder, who is married with a 17-month-old son, now earns about a third less than the $11.47 hourly wage he was paid at Fruehauf and receives no health insurance from his present employer. Says he: "Sure, I got another job, but I can't save a dime. We wanted to have another baby, but we can't afford it. I didn't know what an LBO was until a couple...
...added that his likely candidacy for treasurer and the ballot campaign naturally go together, particularly if Crane seeks another term. "I can very easily say that the system is wrong for allowing the treasurer to stay in that long," Malone said...