Word: eked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more for gray flannel suits than Brooks Brothers. The novel's key setting is Pine Island, Me., a summer retreat and a kind of "perverted Garden of Eden from which one was expelled for the sin of poverty." Among the unexpelled nouveau poor are the Hunters, who eke out their stay as genteel innkeepers. Fortyish Bart Hunter is an existentially minded drunkard whose most cutting insult is to call someone "cheerful." His disillusioned wife Sylvia once took him for a big social cheese, but now knows him for an ineffectual mouse. Their son John, a taut, brooding...
...forearm" to a house in the sleepy, whitewashed mountain village of Bellapaix. Under "the Tree of Idleness" in the village square, the town greybeards sipped Turkish coffee and played a sempiternal game of cards. To Durrell's knowledge no one ever died, and the town gravedigger had to eke out a living digging cesspits. Each day toward twilight, a dozen cattle burst across the main street at racehorse pace, urged on by a bearded Hercules. He looked "like some dispossessed character from the Homeric cycle, who had yoked the oxen...
Businessman La Cavera knows that Sicily has a long way to go. Sicily's per capita income is still woefully low at $175 annually (v. $470 in Italy's industrial region of Piedmont); many thousands of unemployed still eke out a bare existence, eating lumache ed erbe (snails and greens) gathered in the woods. But Sicily has hope and enterprise for the first time in. centuries. "It doesn't require miracles," says La Cavera. "All it takes is will and work, intelligence and initiative. In ten years, we'll catch up with the rest of Italy...
Despite a strong fourth-quarter Crimson comeback effort, Yale's freshman soccer team managed to eke out a 3-2 victory over a determined Yardling squad...
...many companies, it was an effort to squeeze out profits comparable to still generally rising sales volumes. Union Carbide Corp., for example, raised its sales 7% (from $331.3 million for the quarter to $355.5 million), but was able to eke out only a 1.2% increase in earnings (from $33.6 million to $34 million). Radio Corp. of America had nine-month sales of $853.7 million, 5% over 1956's alltime high, though profits rose only 2% (from $27.8 million to $28.3 million...