Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many an Argentine hesitated to accept La Prensa's conclusion that Miranda was a dead duck. They had not forgotten that 18 months ago, when he swapped his job as head of the Central Bank for the chairmanship of the Economic Council, he had become stronger than ever. Perhaps he could do it again. But if half the stories circulating in Buenos Aires were true, Don Miguel was really out this time. Recent cabinet meetings, according to these stories, had become very stormy every time economic matters were discussed. Even Miranda's underlings in the Central Bank...
...early missionaries had translated. He got older natives to give classes in planting and canoe-making, and he himself lectured constantly on sanitation. "We must use the toilets and not the school grounds," he would say. "We must never eat food off the ground . . . We must not store our dead fish in our foot lockers" (which the Trukese had gotten from the Navy...
...common and preferred stocks in five issues. The biggest: $20.4 million worth of Bethlehem Steel common, $8.1 million worth of Philadelphia's prosperous, long closely held Rohm & Haas 'chemical works.* Wall Streeters, who had long been telling one another that risk capital was all but dead, thought that they felt a stronger pulse...
...very-bestseller of 1948 was not The Naked and the Dead after all. Norman Mailer's big, raw war novel (TIME, May 10) had held the lead all summer and much of the fall, sold 125,000 copies. But by New Year's Day, Mailer had lost the race. The man who passed him in the stretch was an old hand at turning out bestsellers. Lloyd C. Douglas' The, Big Fisherman (TIME, Nov. 22)-a novel about Saint Peter-had hit the stands in mid-November, sold a whopping 350,000 copies in a scant six weeks...
...there was nothing really so surprising about Douglas' victory. "Those who hope to qualify as No. 1 popular novelist," wrote Thompson, "had better follow the formula . . .1) operate within a historical, costumed setting, or 2) develop a devotional theme. The Big Fisherman does both. The Naked and the Dead does neither...