Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elsewhere the authorities found other caches: under an electric crane in Turin's Fiat steel mill, 29 light machine guns and other arms; in a field near the Milan railway line, three Sten and five Bren guns, 80 grenades, etc.; in a zinc coffin buried under the sports field of an auto plant near Milan, one mortar, one small antiaircraft gun, three Bren guns...
This week the D.A. added a little more fuel to the fire. He announced that another $135,000 was missing from the U.F.A.'s funds and pointed an accusing finger at the union's President John P. Crane. When Crane refused to sign an immunity waiver, he was summarily fired from the department. But, said Crane, the loyal firemen would also make up his salary out of the union treasury...
...laconic British Foreign Correspondent Crane, there were more important things to talk about than love on that autumn day in 1947. Civil war raged through India's Kashmir, and swept over the cream-colored British Catholic mission where he had arrived a few days before, looking for a story. Bloodthirsty Pathan tribesmen had swarmed down from the north, seized the mission and taken their revenge by slaughtering some of the Hindu refugees hiding there...
Through the wide, wild sweep of Kashmir's back country, British Author H. E. Bates has followed Correspondent Crane up a familiar narrative trail. Its destination: that old tried-and-tired Grand Hotel situation, into which the invading Pathans burst as uninvited guests. Some cleanly chronicled violence whets The Scarlet Sword's edge. But no amount of honing can file away such a collection of rusty cliches as the turnabout of the shunned prostitute who finally reveals her heart of gold; Correspondent Crane's scorn at first sight and love at second for the English girl...
...Crane's only esthetic creed was "honesty." He did much to release American fiction from the cocoon of euphemism and sentimentality. Technically, he was an Impressionist. Like Flaubert, Chekhov and James, he aimed for "the immediate sense of life, not the removed report." He himself never achieved that summit of craft where art appears to be artless. His oddly arresting similes and metaphors jut up like boulders deflecting the clear stream of his narratives. Many a sentence of Crane's is beaded with the sweat that went into its construction. Despite these deficiencies, his pages twang with...