Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case of foreign aid, he had faced realities. His whole foreign program (the stopgap aid and the long-term Marshall Plan which would inevitably be discussed at the same time) involved calculable risks. All U.S. funds to Europe might be a dead loss. Mr. Truman had accepted the calculable risk...
...even if Congress were to change its heart, there was no likelihood that it could do so before the regular session in January. By January, if the winter was hard, there would be snowdrifts on the reservation and many of the children and old men would be dead...
Temperate Life. All this was good news for the oil companies. Petroleum is believed to come from the dead bodies of minute animals sinking to the bottom of shallow seas. If the same marine fauna flourished in both the U.S. and South America, there should be good oil prospects in the Amazon Basin as well as in Texas...
...free hand. Says he: "Where there is no money, there is no interference from pocketbooks. The only thing that can save us is ideas." At his first performance (Tosca), the guns of the firing squad failed to fire in the last act, and the hero had to drop dead without a bang. In Carmen, the audience was convulsed by a soldier trying to put his saber into its scabbard the wrong way. But by the time the curtain had gone down on Martha, critics cheered...
...Druid Circle (by John van Druten; produced by Alfred de Liagre Jr.) deals with life-or rather the awful lack of it-in a wormy provincial British university "near the borders of England and Wales." The leading spirits there are all husks and cinders, all genteel pedants dead from the neck down. Worst of all is 53-year-old Professor White (beautifully played by Leo G. Carroll), whose thin blood has turned to bile, and who hates youth pathologically, not just as something that has vanished, but as something that never came...